Alice 3.0 to use Sims

Alice is an open source system developed over the last 10 years and provided as a free public service by Carnegie Mellon. In combination with novel educational materials developed by Computer Science Professors Wanda Dann of Ithaca College and Stephen Cooper of St. Joseph's University , Alice is already in use at more than 60 colleges to teach various introductory computer science/computer programming courses.
Now, they've signed with EA to help them facelift the interface (using the Sims). It's a big change, and it's nice to see the industry working with academics, but a tool like this isn't what most game companies use to construct their games.