Serious Gaming Research and Development
Serious gaming is a $11B business and is used in many fields such as Marine Resource Management, Land Use Planning, and Climate Change. How can water managers and mediators mitigate conflict over transboundary water resources regardless of the geographic scale? We believe the answer is social learning through serious gaming. IWW is regularly contacted to provide inventories of games for different applications, modify existing games to address specific issues, and is active in developing original games.
Building upon media reports of the renewed peace between farmers and beavers in western US, a student hourly employee was hired by IWW to develop a board game to gamify the nexus between Beavers, Fish and Farmers using funding from the US Geological Survey Water Resources Research Act, Section 104(b) funds.
See:
- Online “escape room” game that IWW assisted in designing. Memory Mayhem: A Groundwater Puzzle Game.
- Serious Gaming in Water article.