relation: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/1094/
title: Playing with the future - Opportunities and risks of city building simulation and strategy games in spatial and urban planning
creator: Fouraschen, P.F.M.
description: City building simulation and strategy games have become more and more popular the last decades. At the same time, serious gaming is gaining momentum in various fields of study. Temporary spatial and urban planning issues are becoming more integrated and complex, while the public participation, and a representative one, becomes harder to achieve. In light of these developments, this research sets out to explore how city building simulation and strategy games can be used in spatial and urban planning. A game experiment was conducted to find out how the participants reacted to playing a city building simulation and strategy game in a serious way. The lessons that emerge from the experiment are that games are fun to play, but should be of moderately complexity in order to provide insights in topics as complexity and decision-making processes.
date: 2016
type: Thesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/1094/1/Masterthesis_P.F.M._Fouraschen_1.pdf
identifier:   Fouraschen, P.F.M.  (2016) Playing with the future - Opportunities and risks of city building simulation and strategy games in spatial and urban planning.  Master thesis.