Macrocosm, The Sustainability Simuation Game

Posted: January 7th, 2009 | Author: Steve | Filed under: Business, Serious Games, Sustainability, Technology | Tags: Business, Games, linkedin, Serious Games, simcity, Sustainability, venture plan, venture showcase | View Comments

I was recently honored to be chosen by my fellow MBA  students at the Presidio School of Management to present my final project in front of the entire school at Presidio’s Venture Showcase. I was one of three teams to present that evening.

The Venture Showcase is a celebration of the hard work that graduating Presidio students have put in over the previous semester, and, in some cases, over the past two years, on their final projects. These projects are complete business plans, representing a concept for a new product in the sustainability realm. Products ranged from biofuels to consulting services.

Macrocosm – Presidio Venture Showcase from Steve Puma on Vimeo

My project, Macrocosm, represents my desire to find a way to leverage mass-collaboration  and computer technologies to allow every day people to participate in solving complex problems. Macrocosm is a simulation game, similar in style to SimCity, which takes gaming technology and focuses it on real-world scenarios. The game would be used by corporations, NGOs and governments to simulate their various climate change challenges and the proposed strategies for dealing with them. Players will compete to solve these challenges, and their solutions will allow the sponsoring organizations to test how well their proposed strategies work in combination and in complex environments over time. This will allow these organizations to produce more robust and workabe strategies, educate the public and include the public in the problem-solving process.

I welcome your feedback and comments.