worldofcommunities.org

In 2016 we developed a new tool - World of Communities: Coopetition - social impact board game that allow citizens to take responsibility for their lives and communities, deeply understand how the mechanisms behind healthy and prosperous societies work in practice.

Since then our company is developing a national network of practitioners that use serious games and gamification in the field of community development, design and implementation of projects and community development strategies.

World of Communities players (4-5 players) build their community based on game scenarios. To win the game, players need to develop the community, extend public infrastructure, manage community assets wisely, launch new businesses, develop professional skills, increase level of health and happiness.

What is more, throughout this collective effort to build a sustainable community, each player have to face a variety of tough life choices, thus learning how to balance between life and work, private interests and common good.

BUSINESS

● Build a close-knit team● Identify informal leaders● Model group decision making● Diagnose your team

EDUCATION

● Develop leadership skills● Boost entrepreneurship skills● Raise civic awareness among youth

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

● Learn about community development tools● Engage community members to decision making● Model community development scenarios

Ability to make influence

We don`t sell you a board game.

We help you to create a system which day after day slowly changes its participants and their surrounding.

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Ability to engage people of different age and social status

We don`t say that the game itself is a magic pill.

But we claim that the game process is likely to help you to create safe and open space to perceive new ideas, establish horizontal networks and combat stereotypes.

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Galyna Rudnic

Deputy Head of the Department of Education, Culture, Tourism, Youth and Sports of the Smyga local council

"World of Communities game-training has become a trigger of youth activism in Smyga local community. After the game session in the local Youth Council the group of pupils was inspired to initiate their first project and take part in the local participatory budgeting process. However, they have no idea how to write projects, they cooperated with the local NGO activists - the one who held game sessions for them, and applied for a local participative budget for the project implementation."

Yosyp Skorobohatyy

Head of the Youth Commission of the Sokal-Zhovkva Diocese of the UGCC

"The game allows you to talk about serious and necessary things in a game way. For young people, this is perfect. To me as a priest, the game can be used not only for community development but also for parish development and community service".

Oksana Pitsyk

Head of the Smidinska local community, Volyn region

"Even as a head of the local community, thanks to the game I understood that the community is a complex structure in which everything is interconnected. Something goes wrong - and there is a chain reaction. And in the game we see it all in a few hours, not months or years."

- Once I hold the game session and the women who was working in Social Service Center played as a retiree.After the game we were discussing the game results, sharing our impressions about the game and when it was her turn to speak, she started crying: "For 20 years I have been working with retirees. And during this 20 years I have considered them as a beggars who come to me with their problems. I haven`t seen what benefits they can actually bring to the city and I am very sorry for that now"
Taras Tymchuk, co-author of the game

More than 200 Certified game Masters in Ukraine
12 game Masters in Moldova

Customer research

Exploration the real need of potential game users in the target country1 month

Concept Game design

Survey results analysis, creating game content solutions to solve detected problems and game content translation
1 month

Prototyping&Testing

Issuing of first prototypes and game testing with the target audience (future users)
1 month

Facilitation guide

Creating additional methodological materials with practical cases and lifehacks about holding game sessions with different audiences and purposes according to the results of customers needs assesment
1 month

Final release

Making last corrections and final game production
After 4 months from the beginning

Game Masters Certification

Online educational program for certified instructors who can use World of Communities game tool in the area of civic education and community development1 month

Project Evaluation

Next steps planning
After 5 months from the beginning

We are glad to have lots of feedback from our customers. Below is what they found playing World of Communities on a regular basis: