Removed from Gameplay section 6/5/06

Story
Here's what I see. I see the game as having one overall linear story arc that starts at the onset of the of the pandemic and ends with it's finish.


Game Economy

• immunity - the number of people who have survived the disease or have been treated by the vaccine, countries suffering from AIDs have low immunity. effects how many people will return to work
  
• hospital beds - the capacity of the nation to care for the sick while they fight the virus. Also reflects the number health care workers at work, medical supplies
  
• vaccine - the amount of vaccine that available to treat the virus. Depends heavily on if the virus mutates.
• hygene - the cleanliness practices of people in the city. Crowded cities are less hygenic, population knowledge of hand-washing, sneezing, masks
• panic - the status of people's sentiments. Panic is effected by media information, availability of food and water, utilties, the rate of people dying

WHO indicators

• number of cases
• number dead
• number vaccinated
• number immune (must confirm)

USA

• Economy
• Panic
• Hospital beds
• # Immune
• Cases/ Deaths

Lab

• Vaccine Progress
• Vaccine Count
• Virus information

Family

• Health
• Food/water
• Money
  

Questions:

• Should we include natural disasters or terrorism?
• Should we include numbers on economy or if people are at work. You could create an employment figure for the number number of healthy people working. effected by quarantine decisions
• Should we create a tree that shows how each effects the other?

Challenges

• Decide who gets the vaccine first (WHO, US,
  
• Drive the vaccine truck
• Create the right vaccination
• Decide quarantine sections
• Replicate the virus under microscope
• Choosing what to store at home
• Place hospital workers
  
• Contain the virus
• Develope vaccine
• Drive to parents house to retriieve parents or help parents
• Deciding to return to work
• Locate the virus outbreak
• Send a message to the media
• Collect samples from sick to monitor if the virus mutates

Prior to May 29

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Level 1: WHO Decides

Star Mechanic:TBD
Goal: Try to contain the virus
Learning goal:

• Virus is hard to contain and track. Can't always find predictable clusters.
• Media can cause uncessary panic
  
• Importance of planning
  

Mini-games:
WHO

• Find the cluster
• Quarantine

US

• Make press announcement; Communicate how vaccines would be allocated.
  
• Decide whether to support int'l measures to contain virus

Lab

• Understand the virus
• Match a vaccine
  

Family

• Prepare stockpile (Be ready)
  
• Create a plan (Be aware)
  
• Find trustworthy news sourcess (Be aware)
• Find out about plans (Be aware)

Level Challenge: Find and Quarantine the cluster (harder)
More data comes in. Flight plans have been discovered linking new cases to 1 of 3 places. There is now a new case in South America. Determine between three locations

Result: Virus has been minimally contained in these areas, but a fourth location sprouts up - The United States.

Level 2: America gets into gear

Star Mechanic:TBD
Goal: Deploy Stockpiles and implement response
Objectives:
+ Deploy vaccine (Manage)
+ Implement quarantine (Manage)
+ Protect your family from (Protect)
getting sick

Learning goal:

• Virus is hard to contain and track. Can't always find predictable clusters.

Mini-games:
WHO

• Find the cluster
• Quarantine

US

• Deploy stockpiles allocating to sites
  
• Decide quarantine
• Limit non-essential domestic travel
• Prioritize vaccine
  

Lab

• Check for mutations
• Speed vaccination creation
  

Family

• Know the symptoms
  
• Don't Pass it on
  
• Keep your distance
  

Level Challenge: Find and Quarantine the cluster (harder)
More data comes in. Flight plans have been discovered linking new cases to 1 of 3 places. There is now a new case in South America. Determine between three locations

Result: virus has been minimally contained in these areas, but a fourth location sprouts up - The United States.

Mini-Games

Decide who gets the vaccine first

Type: Puzzle/Sim
Learning goal: Balancing ethics vs pratical decisions; Understanding the complexity of distribution
Setup: The vaccination has been created finally after 6 months of waiting. There still is not enough for everyone. Decide who gets the vaccination in the US. Queue five categories of people into a vaccination line. The line contains a finite amount of vaccination. Each block you put in the line varies in volume to the number of people in that category. You will leave some people unvaccinated. Run the simulator to see your results in your success variables which are immunity, hospital beds and panic.

Categories:

• Elderly
• Critical personal
• Health care workers and first responders
  
• Very Sick
• Babies
• Young people (15 < 40 years) or (<65)
  
• Pregnant women

See: http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/nspi_implementation.pdf (pg 114)
See: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12742507/
Source: NPR Science http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5401179
Source: NPR Science: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5315150

Why

• full-life tradeoff; give people pr
  
• healing the sick for organ donation
• shouldn't be based on annual flu planning
  

Gameplay:
Stage 1: Setup: Enough vaccine for everyone. No considerations.

Goal: High survival rate. Use at least 70% of vaccine.

Stage 2: Setup: Enough vaccine for everyone. One consideration

Goal: mortality rate < 40 % for healthy people. It is W shaped and not U Shaped. Affects 20 <40 ages like 1918

Stage 3: Setup: Not enough vaccine for everyone.

Vaccine not effective enough. Must be administered in 2 doses at the highest levels. It takes much more vaccine. May only have enough vaccine for 25-40 million people world-wide out of 6 billion. Only 50% effective.

Goal: Only 12%. Young and healthy people are mostly affected.

Stage 4: Scientists figure out how to add adjuvants to lower the doses. Now there are 5 million doses.


... other stages
Stage V: Virus has mutated requires hire doses. It is less effective in certian types of people
Stage W: Fill in a limited amount of time.
Stage X: Maximize vaccination in a city like New York where first responders might be more important
Stage Y: Simulate vaccination decisions that would necessarily differ by state or city.
Stage Z: Famers vs city workers. In a stage two outbreak there might be a decision based on a local problem.
Stage ZZ: Use the computer to ramp the difficulty by calculating the top solutions and presenting in that order.

Interface:

• There are buttons to grab and drag each of the populations onto the syringe.
  
• There are read-outs showing the ratings in our 3 metrics: hospital beds, economy and people panic.
• There is also a time button. Time doesn't run while you make decisions.
• Vaccine amount 4 million doses
  

Controls:

• Left mouse to start
  
• Player picks their options by left-clicking with the mouse.
  
• Left mouse to run the simulation. Animation shows each person dropping out of the syringe coating the earth. Time is running
  
• Left mouse to stop the simulation.
  

Scoring:

• Early stages the mini-game is just practice. There is no scoring that effects your simulator later it could be used in a final sim challenge to affect your score.
• Your

Sketch feedback:

• Fill should go from right to left not left to right.
• Add a goal line to the left middle picture.
• Deaths listed at bottom right is demoralizing. Perhaps list the survivals not the deaths. In raw numbers.
• Check out fluxx card game. Goals of the game are constantly.
  

Notes

Watch the video here
http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=c39db88b-c25f-4d96-8b60-f387f7cf29bd&t=c1313&f=06/64&p=hotvideo_bird_flu

images

volcano - smoking under our feet
brushfire - will jump a street
maps illustrating cases
human body - latching on to the cells
leavitt's warroom

characters
mike leavitt

doctor - tieing together the symptoms
nurse - investigating wifes patterns, epidemiology triage nurse
wife
cdc chief - global migration and quarantine
president - asking for money, allocating it to states (monitoring flu, borders, vaccine production, vaccine stockpile)
who - epidemic and pandemic - finding the cluster, what's the move on the "chess table"
rapid response team - send out medicine, quartine, go to source


consequences
day 40 is the peak
restaurants, churches, schoool, movies
trash pickup
mail delivery
police
utilities - electricity, water, trash
subways, busses and trucks
40% of workforce would be empty
panic
overcrowded emergency rooms
closures of emergency rooms
shortage coffins and head stones => mass graves
7 - 100 million deaths worldwide
US estimates 90 million sick, 45 million medical care, 2 million dead


needs
people need to be prepared for extraordinary events but they also need to be prepared for events that take a long time.

act decently

choose a mass grave

don't give away your innoculation

give vaccine to poor countries



strategies
"social distancing"
quarantine
who gets vaccinated first
storing food and water at home
come up with a plan - homeschool kids, working from home


immunity
hospital beds
vaccine
hygene
natural disasters
aids
number health care workers at work
number of recovers have immunity
mutate into




Learning points:
antibiotics don't make things better, they can actually make things worse
the governement can't help everyboydy



Minigame
- be the virus- understanding virus -

Challenges:
- developing vaccine
- locating where it is
- early quarantine
- media management
- fix it
- develop vaccine
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Combine days 1-14 in to pre store
Statre at the pandemice

Point V
fix it
develop
vacinate
locate it
understand it

point 6
statuse
point 7
distribute vaccine decide who gets the vaccine See this article debating the matter. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12742507/
handle crisies


Level 3: WHO – epidemic and pandemic – finding the cluster, what’s the move on the “chess table” rapid response team – send out medicine, quarantine, go to source

Mini-game 1: Finding the cluster in Asia
Mini-game 2: Driving vaccine truck in Asia

Level 4: Family Preparation
Stocking food and water, Buying and cooking chicken, hand-washing and hygene, responding to quarantine alerts, dealing with panic,

Mini-game 1: Sneeze hop – spread as fast as you can
Mini-game 2: Hand-Surf – race the around your hand beat the virus
Mini-game 3: Un-quarantine – go out if you dare

Level 5: Flu’s Second wave and a new Outbreak
Watch the outbreak of the current disease, see the onset of a new one.

Mini-game 1: WHO Simulator


Level 6: Family
Healthy go to work, sharing resources, choosing graves, the long road ahead

Mini-game 1: Go or stay?