The SIM4NEXUS Serious Game enables players to implement policies in a gameplay environment and explore how policies impact on different areas of the Nexus i.e. the interactions between Water, Energy, Land, Food and Climate.
Summary information is given about policy actions, assigned costs and potential benefits; this facilitates scorekeeping according to both financial and social capital metrics.
Costs are tallied against benefits, which are revealed as gameplay progresses. This allows a player to measure progress and compare to others.
It is built upon system dynamics models with a sound scientific basis.
The Serious Game
• Includes • a strategy map that facilitates comparison of policy impacts in different regions,
• a virtual card table in which policy cards can be applied through a drag-and-drop interface, and
• a visualization system that shows the impacts of users’ decisions on the model.
Go here to play the SIM4NEXUS Serious Game; the game is optimized to work on the Chrome web browser, and is also able to perform on Firefox.
Programmed using the css3d renderer with an isometric camera. Many visualization modules scroll in an out of sight whenever you need them. Made for a computer, so no touch screen and small screen design.
Pan using mouse right click + drag, ans zoom using mouse wheel. Otherwise use arrows and Z X on keyboard.
Once you go to the main page, click on: play as guest, then click on a country e.g. greece.
Then click on the “easy play” button … skip the questionnaire, and you are in the game !
A strategy game with a system dynamic model of more than 11 000 interactive variables…