Over the years T-Xchange has done several Serious Games for Urban and Spatial Development. In this presentation I explain why T-Xchange feels that Serious Gaming can speed up the planning process while involving more stakeholders, leading to better plans.

1. Serious Gaming for Urban and
Spatial Planning
Frank Aldershoff
T-Xchange
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2. Who am I?
Serious Gaming Specialist @T-X
Lecturer @University of Amsterdam
Game Programming MSc AI
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3. Who am I?
Serious Gaming Specialist @T-X
Lecturer @University of Amsterdam
Game Programming MSc AI
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4. Serious gaming is serious business
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5. T-Xchange
Urban & Spatial Planning
Training/Awareness Games
Commercially and Subsidised
GATE
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6. Urban and Spatial Planning
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7. Airport Twente
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8. Kasteelschap
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9. POP Overijssel
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10. Intenational Zone
in The hague
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11. Urban Matters
Cordaid
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12. Why Serious Gaming?
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13. Common Operational Picture
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14. Shared Interactive Map
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15. T-Xchange Process
T-Xplore
T-Xperience
T-Xamine
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16. Three Example Projects
Twente Airport
Focus on environmental effects, MER
POP Overijssel
Focus on future developments
International Zone, The Hague
Focus on safety, VER
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17. Twente Airport
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18. Twente Airport
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19. Two plans
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20. Two plans
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21. The Game
Cooperation
Central map
Plans at locations
Effect viewers
One final game to create one plan
supported by all stakeholders
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22. POP Overijssel
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23. POP Overijssel
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24. POP Overijssel
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25. Showcase Veilig Nederland
Multi Criteria Planning Game
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26. International Zone
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27. Security and Safety
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28. Adversarial Play
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29. Final Game
Bewoner
Bouwer
Beveiliger
Risk Expert
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31. Gaming Session
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32. Gaming Session
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33. Gaming Session
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34. Lessons Learned
Public officials are very reluctant to give up power
Fun is important aspect of (serious) games, even-though project-
partners disagree on this
The players/stakeholders are willing to accept fun and
randomness such as throwing dices
The game combined with visualisations of models seems an
effective method to deal with multi-stakeholder problems
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35. Something Completely Different
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36. Or is it?
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37. Cordaid Urban Matters
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38. Cordaid Urban Matters
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39. Two Phases
Awareness game
Plan building game
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40. Something Different
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41. Something Different
Today:
Plenary Hall
11:45 - 12:25
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