The TWIST-Game aims to provide laymen and casual users with an understanding interface for the complexity of engineered infrastructural solutions. Within the TWIST-Game, players are enabled to reconstruct and realize solutions developed by engineers. The simulation gives players the opportunity to try out innovations and to check their immediate local consequences. „Play your Village.“ Innovation needs acceptance. Understanding innovation rises acceptance.

Our Client:

The Game loads GIS-data (Shape-format) from villages, city districts or entire cities and can represent it as an interactive game world.

TWIST++ GAME FEATURE 1

Play your village!

Automatic Level-Design in the simulation game

The game world is not designed by the hands of Game Artists, but the real world is loaded into the game - as the same GIS-Data (shape format) that the engineers use for their planning. The integration of a new water infrastructure network takes one day.

The game has got a bidirectional Interface to the engineering software for data exchange and computations (tandler.com + 3sconsult)

TWIST++ GAME FEATURE

The game is connected to planning software for waterinfrastructure engineering. It exchanges data and computations live with the engineering software.

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A new approach on project planning - for the engineers as well as for decision-makers and civic participation.

Construction mode: Building septic tanks for houses and watch the ecological, economic and social consequences over time.

Visualization: Placing muti-purpose Hotspots e.g. shared solutions, troubleshooting, marking special interest areas

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Planning scenarios

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Harmonization of data

Centralized DB

Risk assesment/Flooding

Hydraulics

Hydraulics, Quality

Polluting loads

Asset Management:Strategies and Implementation

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Twist ++ Gesamtarchitektur: Spiel- und Simulationssystem

TWIST++ GAME FEATURE 3

The game simulates the complete water cycle!

The game integrates the planning software for drinking water supply (3sconsult) and the planning software for waste water treatment (tandler.com)

System Architecture of the Game / Engineering software

TWIST++ GAME FEATURE 5TWIST++ is a simulation for the future.

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The playtime can take several decades in order to monitor the consequences of your planning considering different aspects of sustainability.

TWIST++ GAME FEATURE 6

Statistics in the game

Statistics for the +36 indicators in the simulation that are mapped to three points accounts of sustainability: ecology, economy and social

The game computes 36 indicators of urban water economy with a multi-criteria assessment and maps these variables onto the three points accounts of sustainability.

PLANING A WATER SUPPLY PROJECTThe following example shows a concept for an innovation in greywater recycling and energy extraction for the town of Lünen. Our software will transfer the project planning into a simulation game. The game will build upon real planning data and existing technological modelling. In the simulation laymen like citizens and Real-World decision makers like local town councillors will be able to play through solutions that professionals suggest for sustainable water supply.

Connecting takomat´s EPIGENE game engine / simulation framework with real-world engineering tools.

= The simulation game calculates with real GIS-Data and the simulation cores of the engineering software tools in the background.

Daniel Schwarz takomat GmbH

dan@takomat.com www.takomat.com

LIVE DEMO TWIST++ GAME VISIT US AT OUR BOOTH @ FRAUNHOFER ALLIANZ-SYSWASSER, HALL A5 booth 217/316 today at 4 p.m.