Disaster Relief

PC | 2016 | Serious Game | Strategyr
Disaster Relief game was inspired by the case studies done by The Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific, NUS for its Humanitarian Platform Workshops, conducted around the region.

In this game, players assume the role of a humanitarian relief planner in a fictitious disaster-prone city. They must effectively manage their available resources to provide uninterrupted supply chain of life savingitems to the survivors. To achieve that, the players must prepare the best plan possible, to rescue and ensure the well-being of the survivors during disaster.

The game is played in two phases, the Planning Phase to simulate the Preparedness stage and the Execution Phase to simulate the Response stage of the Disaster Management Cycle.

The game allows players to be in a risk-free environment simulating real world disaster crisis scenario. By incorporating both theory and fun component, the game will be concurrently educational and entertaining, enhancing significantly the quality of the learning experience.

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Development

Disaster Relief, a final-year internship/major project, was a serious game developed over the course of nine months.

For this project, I served primarily as a game programmer where my primary role was to write scripts in C# for use in Unity. These consists of the core gameplay systems, game building tools for future expandability, user input handling, user interface programming, and AI path finding.

The main challenge we faced was the gamification of Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief. With such a complex field as a backdrop, we constantly had to bounce ideas back and forth with our supervisors to find a balance of educational knowledge and fun.

The game also had far reaching exposure, with The Logistics Institution - Asia Pacific (TLI-AP) presenting the game at multiple conferences to audiences such as senior leaders within ASEAN countries.

An in-depth look at the work and research that went behind the game can be found in a publication by TLI-AP here: Link.

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