{"author_link":"\/users\/merrak","author_name":"merrak","author_uid":"merrak","comments":[],"epoch":1587521320,"event":"LD46","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":206091,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"143740","p_author":"merrak","p_authorkey":"1025072","p_urlkey":"360153","p_title":"Civil Policy Simulator","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD46","p_time":"1587521320","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1025072","us_name":"merrak","us_username":"merrak","event_start":"1587081600","event_key":"77","event_name":"Ludum Dare 46"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD46","removed_author":false},"_superparent":176557,"_trust":3,"author":25072,"body":"This is the first time I've participated in Ludum Dare since the 'combine two genres' theme. My last game was a parody of edutainment. This time I took the \"serious route\" and built a small simulation that models the two facets of dealing with the global pandemic.\n\nI've been swamped since had to move all of the math classes I teach online, but this project let me stay productive and also participate in LD.\n\n\"Covid Conundrum\" is in the same vein as Maxis' \"Sim Health\" from the mid-1990s. It's not so much a game than it is an interactive model. My goal is to illustrate how exponential growth works in \"real world applications\", and maybe help some of my students better understand the terminology they see in the news.\n\nOf course, it's not likely to be very accurate. The numbers are based on 'best guesses' that approximate those in reports from rural North Carolina counties. It's open source, though. So if anyone disagrees with the model parameters, it's easy enough to change them and re-run the experiments.\n\n![scrot2.png](\/\/\/raw\/0f1\/6\/z\/321cf.png)\n\nI'm generally happy with the result. It's an agent-based model that simulates 10,000 individuals. I'd like it to be better tuned to real-world observations on a larger scale, but I think I did okay given the time constraints and how much we currently know about virus transmission.","comments":0,"created":"2020-04-22T01:50:17Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":206091,"love":0,"meta":[],"modified":"2020-04-22T02:08:40Z","name":"Civil Policy Simulator","node-timestamp":"2020-04-22T02:08:40Z","parent":194586,"parents":[1,5,9,176557,194586],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/covid-conundrum-civil-policy-simulator\/civil-policy-simulator","published":"2020-04-22T02:08:40Z","scope":"public","slug":"civil-policy-simulator","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":621091},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"206091","n_urlkey":"360153","n_parent":"194586","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/covid-conundrum-civil-policy-simulator\/civil-policy-simulator","n_slug":"civil-policy-simulator","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"25072","n_created":"1587520217","n_modified":"1587521320","n_version":"621091","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/covid-conundrum-civil-policy-simulator\/civil-policy-simulator","text":"This is the first time I've participated in Ludum Dare since the 'combine two genres' theme. My last game was a parody of edutainment. This time I took the \"serious route\" and built a small simulation that models the two facets of dealing with the global pandemic.\n\nI've been swamped since had to move all of the math classes I teach online, but this project let me stay productive and also participate in LD.\n\n\"Covid Conundrum\" is in the same vein as Maxis' \"Sim Health\" from the mid-1990s. It's not so much a game than it is an interactive model. My goal is to illustrate how exponential growth works in \"real world applications\", and maybe help some of my students better understand the terminology they see in the news.\n\nOf course, it's not likely to be very accurate. The numbers are based on 'best guesses' that approximate those in reports from rural North Carolina counties. It's open source, though. So if anyone disagrees with the model parameters, it's easy enough to change them and re-run the experiments.\n\n![scrot2.png](\/\/\/raw\/0f1\/6\/z\/321cf.png)\n\nI'm generally happy with the result. It's an agent-based model that simulates 10,000 individuals. I'd like it to be better tuned to real-world observations on a larger scale, but I think I did okay given the time constraints and how much we currently know about virus transmission.","title":"Civil Policy Simulator","wayback_source":[]}