Game Examples
I’ve been looking into games that deal with humanitarian issues and education, and I came across this list of digital games (see link below). I thought it might be of interest to those of us possibly developing games. The games highlighted here are diverse, from strictly strategy-based (the UN’s Stop Disasters), to ones that are designed to tell a narrative (UNHCR’s Against All Odds). If anybody knows of others maybe they will add them in the comments.
http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/11/10/humanitarian-games-catalogue/
I also came across this Red Cross game titled Red Cross Emergency Response Unit, which is only available for PC, and is strangely not free. However, there is a youtube video of it here:
Budgetball is an interesting non-digital educational game developed at Parsons’ PETLab. It “was designed to increase awareness of the national budget deficit and to reward strategic thinking and collaborative problem-solving around the issues of fiscal responsibility and long-term debt management.”
http://www.budgetball.org/
http://petlab.parsons.edu/node/28
The MIT “Beer Game” is a classic way to teach supply chain concepts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game
We used to play it with various humanitarian logistics officers. Or was that just pub sessions?