The "Games" are really simulations with students managing businesses within a simulated environment. The simulations move every 60 seconds so students have to react very quickly to changing circumstances.
They are real-time and multiplayer, so the decisions of each student quickly affect the market and other players.
| Version | IT Skills | Play at Home | Pause | Team Play | Factories | Shops |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| 2.0 | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| 3.0 | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
The developer for Business Management Games is Bill Porter BA, MPhil (Hons), who wrote his masters' research essay on the role of management games in education.
