STRATAGEM, A personal computer-based management training game on energy-environment interactions

STRATAGEM simulates in a simplified form the national economy of a country that has reached a stage of development like that found widely in Latin America. The game covers a time span of two generations (60 years). This is split in 12 periods of five years. Per five year planning period a series of decisions (concerning production and consumption of food, goods and energy and concerning investments and trading) must be taken that are used as input into the computer. The PC serves here as an accounting device, that presents the effects of the decisions taken in the form of a description of the situation at the end of the last planning period. A full cycle of the game thus consists of one set of decisions by the team (the input parameters) and a description of the newly calculated state of affairs at the end of that planning period (the output parameters)