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6 - 7.11.2009 » Workshop (ontoparty)
Imagine Cup – Game Design 2010 Competition
Eduard Kuric, Vladimír Mihál, Karol Rástočný, Róbert Sopko
team project (master study), supervised by Michal Tvarožek
The topic of Imagine Cup competition this year is Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems. As an inspiration, competition participants were given eight United Nations Millennium goals including serious material, health, economical and social problems. Since we cannot solve all of the problems, we focused on one of them. The biggest problem we have identified is the lack of interest. Many people in developed countries just don’t care about problems of others; they just see their own lives, their own problems. However even with negligible effort, people can understand other people’s problems and can help to solve them.
To solve the identified problem we propose real-time strategy game. We set our game into places in the world, where various people suffer from serious problems. Main task of a player is to help people with solving their problems, educate and heal them, assure them a good job. The game will touch the real-world problems and will be linked to real foundations and their ongoing projects. We attempt to entertain the players and, at same time, inform them about the most serious problems people face today. Moreover, the game will be massively multiplayer, stimulating players to cooperate with each other, sharing infrastructure, technology and valuable specialists. After completing various tasks, players will be rewarded with special items or awards, which can be used to improve game progress, given to a friend of the player to help him or the award may be put on the players "mantelpiece" to show other players progress and achievements within the game.
Besides all the entertainment, fun and education, we offer a meaningful business model to collect real funds for foundations. Players have the option to buy "upgrades", e.g. to unlock special items in game without effort to acquire new possibility, money raised form payments will be donated to foundations and will be spent on real-world projects. Players will also be informed that by buying an upgrade they really help someone somewhere in the world.
