Business game development toolkit for the WWW environment

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel toolkit for educating business people through home-made simulator development. The toolkit is used at our business simulation course. The course consists of (i) Simple gaming experiment among multiple students using Alexander Islands, a tiny business simulator on the WWW; (ii) Lectures to let students to understand the core concepts of systems management through the simulation; and (iii) Home-made simulation model development by the students themselves using the toolkit, which equips a business model description language (BMDL) and a business model development system (BMDS), This paper describes the background and basic principles, the architecture and of BMDL/BMDS, and evaluation results.