PHL2035 The Game!: play city planner with this game from the City Planning Commission [VIDEO]

The City Planning Commission is again aiming to leverage the web to bring more voices into the notoriously narrow envisioning process. Around its Philadelphia 2035 planning process, the commission released today a web game called PHL2035 The Game.

The hope here is that the effort will reach a broad audience, since not everyone can attend community meetings to discuss planning matters.

Stemming from a partnership between The Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and the City Planning Commission, the game focuses on the “University/Southwest Planning District” and will ask participants to think about potential improvements to the area. There will also be a trivia-like component, where participants can win coins for correct answers and put them toward local causes like tree plantings or cleanups, according to a release. The top causes will win Knight Foundation-backed $500 grants.

Sign up to play the game here. It starts Jan. 28 and runs through Feb. 18.

The game platform, CommunityPlanIt, was built by Boston-based Engagement Game Lab. It’s already been used in Massachusetts and Michigan, according to a release.