Here are some of the currently existing business simulation games:
For 11-14 year olds (5-8 graders, US) studying Social Studies and Economics in school.
Students become international traders from one of six continents: Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, North America or South America. They negotiate prices with buyers and sellers from the other continents. Sometimes they are thwarted from trading by barriers, and they come to understand how the IMF, by fostering free trade, enhances the flow of goods and services worldwide.
Better Business Choices:
This game gives you the opportunity to build your business from scratch. Will you make the right decisions about market conditions and select the right products, suppliers, energy and other vital ingredients to make sure your business survives in the long term?
This game is a single player game that has an option of 3 world scenarios.
Better Business Dilemmas:
You are about to experience what it can be like to manage social and environmental issues in a business – are you up to the challenge? As the new Chief Executive Officer (i.e. the boss) of your company you will be asked to make some decisions. You will have to make the best choices you can as you guide your company through the next twelve months.
The NZIM Business Challenge is a business simulation where teams or individuals from around New Zealand compete against each other in the running of a fictitious company. The business decisions made each period are entered into the simulation website, where the computer simulation analyses the effects on the competing companies.
Innov8 is a state of the art 3D business simulator for Business Process Management (BPM), a ‘serious game’,
which takes participants through the entire lifecycle of discovery, collaboration, optimization, and innovation of a fictional company’s business processes.
INN0V8 teaches the fundamentals of Business Process Management (BPM) by allowing you to virtually
participate in a BPM project derived from IBM’s real world experiences. The game is intended to provide users with an understanding of the entire lifecycle of discovery, collaboration, and optimization of a company business processes.
All these games are good for what they are inteded to do but they are all computer based. In developing countries access to a personal computer is limited, however, almost everyone has a mobile phone. This is why I would like to use these projects and create a similar application but for a mobile phone. I want to use social learning theory and adaptive teaching machine model as the basis for my application integrated with the idea of a business simulator.
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