RailgameElger Heere, Daniël van den Berg, Maisam Haydary,

Wouter de Hoon, Gideon den Ouden & Rens Spierings

01-10-2015

Projectgoal: “Creating a serious game wich takes place in the urban and area development of a railway zone and triggers interactions between the players so they can learn from eachothers position’’

Content

Project Approach Lessons Learned Vancouver

Project

Multidisciplinary project

Redevelopment of railwayzones

Various environment issues

Plan of approach

2 blocks of 3 weeks

1st block

Research

Training

2nd Blok

Game development

Game testing

Plan of approach – 1st Block

1e blok research

Literature research

Analyzing of railway zones

Stakeholder analyse

Analyzing the Climategame

Reporting results

Workshops at Tygron

Plan of approach - 2nd Block

Developing of the Railgame

Facilitator manual

Referencebook

Testing of the game with other students

Lessons Learned

Multidisciplinairy project: very informative

Use research results as foundation for the game

Cause effects

Transforming reality to game elements

You have to rethink the way you give the information

Stimulation interaction between players

Early testing with students appeared to be very useful

Vancouver Presentating our project and game at the EESD15 - The 7th

Conference on Engineering Education for Sustainable Development in Vancouver.

Paper: ‘Learning how to make trade-offsin pursuit of sustainable urban development: building a serious game’