RPG and Business Simulation

Posted on | August 22, 2008 | by Csanad Novak |

When years ago I arrived to New Zealand, I didn’t really hope to be as lucky as I became.
My life in Hungary was defined by two things, Informatics and Role Playing Games. I started to study informatics when 8 bits computers were count as modern ones, internet was unknown in Eastern-Europe, at the beginning of a really exciting era. There weren’t available unlimited resources for us when the memory and the speed of the processor were compensate by ingenuity and infinite exactitude. The Role Playing Games started to conquest at those times as well, and I fell in love with them early, however sadly – or even just fortunately – they weren’t reachable neither in Hungary or on Hungarian language. That is how it happened that I changed my career in informatics to in a game developer and the game I developed is the most successful RPG in Hungary ere now, were moving community with more then hundred-thousand players at the top of it’s career.
It may be unusual that I speak of Role Playing Games as a programmer of business simulation’s developer company, but to think about it further the parallelism is more obvious than it seems at first sight: The Role Playing Game is nothing else but simulation. The gamesystem’s aim to simulate the events of a fantasy world as good as possible, which events at the same time are controlled by strict rules. A well made RPG session teaches you to teamwork and strategy-thinking, and doing it in the way of entertaining and playing. And at this stage I would like to refer back to Spreadsims which our purpose to do exactly this: teach while entertaining, of course on a different, even more useful and efficient level.
When years ago I chose New Zealand to be my new home, I didn’t really hope to be as lucky as I became and I could work with the combination of those two thing which interest me the most. These are the wonders of the life which are worth for make sacrifices.
Now that the Spreadsims, the business simulation’s new platform has been born and is over it’s first successful steps, I can look into the future even with more hope. Here, in the blog of the company you can follow it’s growing up, and – by our hopes – the steps of it’s conqueror journey, like this, a bit personal and immediate way.
Up to the adventure!

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