Vol. 18 No. 4 (2019): Revista UIS Ingenierías
Articles

SAMI: Serious videogame of bovine cattle farms in Unity supported in System Dynamics

Urbano Eliécer Gómez-Prada
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
Oscar Fernando Gómez-Sandoval
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana

Published 2019-07-16

Keywords

  • SAMI,
  • Bovine Cattle Farms,
  • Serious videogame,
  • Unity,
  • System Dynamics

How to Cite

Gómez-Prada, U. E., & Gómez-Sandoval, O. F. (2019). SAMI: Serious videogame of bovine cattle farms in Unity supported in System Dynamics. Revista UIS Ingenierías, 18(4), 15–22. https://doi.org/10.18273/revuin.v18n4-2019001

Abstract

SAMI is a video game for learning about bovine cattle production systems. The game is developed with Unity Engine and has rules based on a model implemented with System Dynamics. On each game, the player must take decisions and do actions that allow him to properly run a farm. Those actions are stored in a website which provides feedback by comparing the executed actions with those which are ideal in order to ease the learning process. The article presents the main aspects of the proposal; that is, part of the model in which it is supported and a summary of the main aspects of implementation in Unity.

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