Facilities Planning and Games

A talk I gave long back on how Video Games merge together with Facilities Planning and optimizations in Operation Management

1. Facilities Planning & Games
2. Warning: Contains some original research presentation
3. Axiom 1: Games can be an Art Form
4. Axiom 2: Games can deliver a learning experience
5. Examples - Beer Distribution Game (Supply Chain Mgt.) - Monopoly - CashFlow - Democracy - Capitalism - Minecraft
6. Table Setup
7. Every turn = 1 week 1. receive incoming orders 2. receive incoming deliveries 3. update play sheets (outstanding deliveries and inventory) 4. send out deliveries, and finally 5. decide on the amount to be ordered Costs 1. Order cost = 0.5 2. Holding cost = 1
8. Bullwhip Effect
9. Facilities Planning - Capacity Planning - Location Planning - Layout Design - Layout Evaluation - Line Balancing
10. Optimizations in Games
11. Optimizations in Games
12. Optimizations in Games Linear Programming
14. Tasks available - Hunting (+FOOD) - Farming (+FOOD, -WOOD) - Lumbering (+WOOD) - Stone Mining (+STONE) - Gold Mining (+GOLD) - Create a building (-WOOD) - Create a villager (-FOOD) Implicit time constraint Not considering walking distances, research and many other factors
15. Task Scheduling
16. Build Order Optimization Problem Z = Time to 30 villager units (minimize) Constraints: 1. Gameplay constraints 2. Real time delay 3. Clicking efficiency 4. Micro management Variables: - X i = Time at which ith villager is created - Process schedules (time at which task is assigned)
17. Genetic Algorithms - Input = current build order - Output = Mutation & Recombination 1. Test and verify each new build order 2. Choose the best build orders 3. Iterate
21. XCOM - Enemy Unknown
22. XCOM - Enemy Unkown
23. Prison Architect
24. Monopoly Play with Science Play by Instinct
25. Simulations
26. Simulations
27. References - Riemer, Kai. The Beer Game, The University of Sydney. http://www.beergame.org/the-game - Lomilar . Zerg Build Order optimizer, Team Liquid. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/starcraft-2/160231-zerg-build-order-opt imizer - Lomilar. Evolution Chamber, Google Code. https://code.google.com/p/evolutionchamber/ - kotekzot. What is the perfect base layout?, Arcade Stack Exchange. http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/89098/what-is-the-perfect-ba se-layout - Darling, Tim. How to Win at Monopoly?, http://amnesta.net.http://amnesta.net/other/monopoly/ - Blow, Jonathan. Truth in Game Design, GDC Vault. http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014982/Truth-in-Game
28. “Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it.” ― Jane McGonigal