Games for Crisis Education

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Contents 1 Facebook Game 2 Contacts 3 Examples of Education Games 4 Other Resources 5 Possible Scenarios 6 Possible Methods

[edit] Facebook Game

Facebook Game Organization

[edit] Contacts

• Insurance companies as sponsors
• Government Agencies
• Schools

[edit] Examples of Education Games

• Redistricting Game http://www.redistrictinggame.org
• QuakeQuizSF http://quakequizsf.org/
• Stop Disasters Game http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/home.html
• Superstruct http://www.superstructgame.org
• BBC article about a fire drill simulator built on the Half-Life 2 engine: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7867861.stm
• "Pamoja Mtanni", HIV/AIDS education multiplayer game based in Nairobi urban and slum environments. Joint public/private partnership beween State Department Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) and Warner Brothers http://www.hivfreegeneration.org

[edit] Other Resources

• http://www.gamesforchange.org/
• http://www.forterrainc.com/
• http://seriousgames.ning.com/
• http://www.fixmystreet.com/
• http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pandemic-2.html
• http://www.xlifegames.com/
• http://www.seeclickfix.com

[edit] Possible Scenarios

• Find Loved Ones (almost how people already look for each other on social networks)
• Hurricane Evacuation Game
• H1N1
• Varied disaster game disaster occurs with certain radius and users have to react. Also can prepare ahead of time by certain actions.

[edit] Possible Methods

• Low tech amazing race type style competition (geeks vs. non-geeks?) (first responders vs. average citizen?)
• Choose your own adventure
• Mobile SMS game
• Simple web frogger like game where have to navigate through a disaster
• GPS enabled real world game.
• Crisis Flashmob
• Way to earn crisis badges. Time/Who's around you
• Facebook games (badges for completing quiz)
• Source book of references for first responders
• SecondLife Crisis Prep/Response Simulations
• CPR, badge or other facebook badges with validation from real first responders in neighborhood
• Incentives for people to report hazards (i.e. 1 point reporting/10 first person report/20 for reporting with pic)