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the Harbour Authority of Antwerp servants of an electronic game in order to increase safety in port
Bruyninckx: we try to put employee ours and the other users of the port to acquaintance of potentially dangerous situations
March 22, 2013
The Harbour Authority of Antwerp has realized an electronic game that has the scope to do so as that the users learn in funny way as they can contribute to return the port surer and to fight crime that work in the harbour areas. Using the new "Serious Game" the players find themselves to for example face various situations that anticipate a potential threat, as people who behave in way suspicion in the harbour areas or cargos you mail in places in which they would not have to be placed.
The game, that it is realized is in Dutch is in a version in English language, is set in a virtual atmosphere industrial in which 30 situations in six various levels are generated. For example, there are levels of game of the acquaintance, of the perimeter control, safety and the evacuation. Each of the situations it demands particular reactions by the player. After to have completed a level, to the player they are supplied explanations on the reasons for which it would have had to assume detailed lists sets in action.
Emphasizing that such types of games are used wide by the security services and of emergency and that they allow with the people to learn in active way, funny and stimulating, the Belgian harbour agency has explained that the objective of the initiative is to return all the aware users of the port of their responsibility to signal situations sospette, to assume appropriate initiatives and to inform the competent authorities. With the Serious Game - the managing director of the Harbour Authority has explained, Eddy Bruyninckx, "we try to put employee ours and the other users of the port to acquaintance of situations potentially dangerous and to illustrate the measures that must assume. In such a way we will allow with the security services to arrive more fastly on the place and than to face the situations more carefully".
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The Harbour Authority of Antwerp has realized an electronic game that has the scope to do so as that the users learn in funny way as they can contribute to return the port surer and to fight crime that work in the harbour areas. Using the new "Serious Game" the players find themselves to for example face various situations that anticipate a potential threat, as people who behave in way suspicion in the harbour areas or cargos you mail in places in which they would not have to be placed.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
