Friend Steve Guerin sends this from Santa Fe….
The Disaster Dynamics Project at UCAR looks timely:http://swiki.ucar.edu/dd/2
Check out the Hurricane Landfall gamehttp://swiki.ucar.edu/dd/71
The Hurricane Landfall Disaster Dynamics Game is a four-player virtual strategy game about the interaction between natural disasters and urban planning. The game is computerized; it plays like a traditional physical boardgame, but there are simulation components that require significant computation. The game's architecture is client-server, with each player having her own computer.
Individual machines allow moves to be made in parallel and enable players to access private representations of the game state in addition to the public representation. The server is typically run on the instructor's computer, and
will also provide facilitation tools.
