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Disaster Dynamics: The Hurricane Landfall Game

Engage in a virtual strategy game exploring the impact of disasters on urban planning. Learn hazard management through role-playing and negotiation. Experience consequences of decisions.

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Disaster Dynamics: The Hurricane Landfall Game

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  1. Seth McGinnis Institute for the Study of Science and Environment (ISSE) Disaster Dynamics:The Hurricane Landfall Game Nov. 8, 2005

  2. http://swiki.ucar.edu/dd Overview The Hurricane Landfall Game is a four-player virtual strategy game about the interaction between natural disasters and urban planning. Students who play the game learn about hazard management through role-playing, negotiation, and experiencing the sometimes unintended consequences of their decisions. • Serious Games • Educational Objectives • Design Constraints • The Game

  3. http://swiki.ucar.edu/dd Why Serious Games? • Engaging • Experiential Learning • Structure Matches Content • Soft Failure • Topsight • Practice Surprise

  4. Teaching Goals Complex Systems & Systems Thinking Human-Environment Interactions Negotiation & Collaboration Decision-Making Under Uncertainty Importance of Recovery, Big/Long Picture http://swiki.ucar.edu/dd Educational Objectives • Target Audience • Undergraduates • Future emergency managers • Future urban planners • Distance learning students

  5. http://swiki.ucar.edu/dd Design Constraints • Teaching Goals • Target Audience • Minimal Requirements • Multiplayer • Fun!

  6. 4 players/game 45 minutes/turn http://swiki.ucar.edu/dd The Game A networked virtual strategy boardgame where players take on different roles in a small town on the coast. They must negotiate community responses to hurricanes and other extreme events. Their land-use decisions are played out over many years and different situations. • Gameplay • Propose Projects • Negotiate • Vote

  7. http://swiki.ucar.edu/dd DEMO!

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