{"id":526,"date":"2018-09-07T19:49:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T19:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crdmrn.com\/index.php\/?p=526"},"modified":"2022-11-09T11:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T11:30:20","slug":"simkult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crdmrn.com\/index.php\/simkult\/","title":{"rendered":"Simkult"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">window.onload=function(){ document.getElementById('solislider').innerHTML = '<div aria-live=\"polite\" id=\"soliloquy-container-539_1\" class=\"soliloquy-container soliloquy-transition-fade  soliloquy-theme-classic\" style=\"max-width:770px;max-height:433px;\"><ul id=\"soliloquy-539_1\" class=\"soliloquy-slider soliloquy-slides soliloquy-wrap soliloquy-clear\"><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-1 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-537\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crdmrn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Simkult_1.png\" alt=\"Simkult_1\" \/><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-2 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-540\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crdmrn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Simkult_3.png\" alt=\"Simkult_3\" \/><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-3 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-541\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crdmrn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Simkult_2.png\" alt=\"Simkult_2\" \/><\/li><\/ul><\/div><noscript><style type=\"text\/css\">#soliloquy-container-539_1{opacity:1}<\/style><\/noscript>' }<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Simkult<\/em><\/strong> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simkult.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an online simulation game<\/a>, developed by The Good Evil while I was working there as a programmer, for and in collaboration with the Technische Universit\u00e4t Dresden with the goal of teaching the player how different management behaviors can influence (both positively and negatively) a company\u2019s work environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the game, each player manages a restaurant with the goal of achieving optimal productivity; as the work conditions influence the employees\u2019 morale and thus the productivity itself, it will be fundamental for the players to learn how to handle the different characters (each of which has different traits and stats) and create a healthy environment for the workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Employees can be hired from a huge pool of NPCs or even snatched from other players, should they be unhappy with the work conditions of their current workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During development of <strong><em>Simkult<\/em><\/strong>, I focused on the implementation of the customer serving minigame, implementing the characters navigation (extending our A* implementation to work on a waypoints net) and interactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, I was in charge of implementing the game\u2019s UI, following the designs provided by the art department and the dependency charts provided by the game designer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-programming","category-prototyping","tag-windows"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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