Arsinoe Serious Town (AST) is a multi-player card game designed to showcase multi-stakeholder climate and economic consensus building for a medium-sized town and demonstrate the challenges and uncertainty in preparing for ‘resilience events’.
The game is designed as a typical ‘ice breaker’ activity, bringing together participants in a safe space to discuss the relative merits of town-scale interventions using cliched personas. The game leverages macroeconomic modelling through STEEPLE to create plausible interventions around the key themes of the ARSINOE open-innovation work package (WP2), allowing players to see the impact of both single interventions and their combined impact on reducing five resilience events.
The game provides players and facilitators with post-game reflection events to consider how the players made their intervention choices, the effectiveness and ethics of their choices, and the impact of the end of game resilience events.
Playing the Game
To play the game, press the 'Get the cards' button on the home page. This will open up a window with a pdf printable versions of the cards. Print the cards out double-sided or send them to a printing company. Once the cards have been printed, use a guillotine or pair of scissors to cut the pages into cards.
Press the 'Read the rules' button on the home page. This will open up a window with a pdf of the game instructions.
To see how the game is played, press the 'Watch the game video' to see a walk-through video of the game being played.