Policy/Management Game Projects

One of the first missions of the Serious Games Initiative is to raise the funds, and assemble the expertise to build any of a number of games-based simulations concerning policy and management of a variety of important public and private sectors.

As a first step, in February of 2003, with support from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Initiative assembled experts in three domains:

• Healthcare/Hospital Management
  
• Education/High-School Leadership
  
• Public Lands Management
  

These groups were coupled with game development experts and worked to develop basic input the Initiative has assembled into a series of game-development treatments which it is currently sharing with potential partners, subject matter experts, and possible funding sources.

These treatments are joined as well by two previous efforts that were undertaken ahead of the Initiative's work to develop treatments for a community college leadership simulation, and a museum game simulation.

Currently the Initiative is now working to post summaries of these treatments for the public at-large.

The Initiative, having spent most of the past year building community infrastructure, is now building a more active effort to fund these and other policy/management game efforts.