Games for Cities

Metropoly (2016)

The Netherlands

Tags:

  • economy,
  • digital,
  • analogue,
  • decisionmaking,
  • learning

A serious game requiring players to make investment decisions for the Netherlands under 5 different development scenarios for achieving its 3-region Metropoly

The Netherlands is increasingly driven by its 3 metropolitan regions: Amsterdam-Utrecht, Rotterdam-The Hague and Eindhoven. A metropolis is a metropolitan area with a central city surrounded by an agglomeration of smaller cities. Each of these metropolitan regions need their own space for independent decision-making on investment programs that increase their adaptability and improve their international position. However, the strategies pursued by each metropolitan region must also each be in sync with one another. There is a need for accelerated and improved decision-making to respond to these sometimes conflicting regional pulls. This is the game’s general aim – to be a tool that can facilitate faster and better decision-making regarding the formation of a metropolis in the Netherlands.

The game includes 5 real investment scenarios for realising the development of a metropolis in the Netherlands, complete with budget calculations and likely impacts across a range of social, environmental, and economic indicators. It is a game for administrators from the three metropolitan regions, as well as for stakeholders from the cultural and technological knowledge networks, or even businesses. Each game involves real projects of regional agendas, and realistic budgets that could be made available for such a plan. These five elaborate investment scenarios can be found online. Players are even encouraged to put together their own investment program, and to send this in to the game design team online, to receive their realistic budget in return.

Metropoly enables players to explore potential investment and development scenarios for the Netherlands in a playful environment, testing how metropolitan regions strengthen their international position, increase their attractiveness to talent or their capacity for innovation, and raise their quality of life. Each game session’s result includes a broad metropolitan investment agenda for the three metropolitan regions with an investment strategy that is supported by quantitative analysis of the expected impacts. Finding mutually beneficial investment strategies for each metropole becomes key to developing successful and synergistic development strategies for entire region. In this way, the game becomes a rapid prototyping and learning environment for professionals – processing large amounts of data in a game environment and then making hypothetical decisions based on this, and then learning the potential impacts of these decisions.

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The Netherlands

Tagged:

  • economy,
  • digital,
  • analogue,
  • decisionmaking,
  • learning

A serious game requiring players to make investment decisions for the Netherlands under 5 different development scenarios for achieving its 3-region Metropoly

The Netherlands is increasingly driven by its 3 metropolitan regions: Amsterdam-Utrecht, Rotterdam-The Hague and Eindhoven. A metropolis is a metropolitan area with a central city surrounded by an agglomeration of smaller cities. Each of these metropolitan regions need their own space for independent decision-making on investment programs that increase their adaptability and improve their international position. However, the strategies pursued by each metropolitan region must also each be in sync with one another. There is a need for accelerated and improved decision-making to respond to these sometimes conflicting regional pulls. This is the game’s general aim – to be a tool that can facilitate faster and better decision-making regarding the formation of a metropolis in the Netherlands.

The game includes 5 real investment scenarios for realising the development of a metropolis in the Netherlands, complete with budget calculations and likely impacts across a range of social, environmental, and economic indicators. It is a game for administrators from the three metropolitan regions, as well as for stakeholders from the cultural and technological knowledge networks, or even businesses. Each game involves real projects of regional agendas, and realistic budgets that could be made available for such a plan. These five elaborate investment scenarios can be found online. Players are even encouraged to put together their own investment program, and to send this in to the game design team online, to receive their realistic budget in return.

Metropoly enables players to explore potential investment and development scenarios for the Netherlands in a playful environment, testing how metropolitan regions strengthen their international position, increase their attractiveness to talent or their capacity for innovation, and raise their quality of life. Each game session’s result includes a broad metropolitan investment agenda for the three metropolitan regions with an investment strategy that is supported by quantitative analysis of the expected impacts. Finding mutually beneficial investment strategies for each metropole becomes key to developing successful and synergistic development strategies for entire region. In this way, the game becomes a rapid prototyping and learning environment for professionals – processing large amounts of data in a game environment and then making hypothetical decisions based on this, and then learning the potential impacts of these decisions.