Applying System Dynamics Theories in Team Project
Learning from the book chapter “Working with System Dynamics,” our team designed a game to represent the life of international students in America. The system is characterized by parameters of their “Americanness,” knowledge of their home country, etc. that are changed based on their choices in many difficult situations. These feedback loops will determine the upcoming choices as well.
Even though we discussed the possibility of making the game a carefully-paced progress of development, we realized that the educational value of the game is that there is no perfect choice but only different positive and negative consequences that take place after each choice, meaning that the game would have many different endings and the system would go to different directions based on the player’s decisions.
