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Board game edition - LAUNCHED Feb. 2016

No computers - Highly interactive
Wonderfully engaging - Surprisingly meaningful
Get your own regional version of an MSP 'war game', at low cost

table top 'strategy' gaming for ...

The “MSP Challenge - Short Sea Shipping Edition" is a playful learning experience – a ‘table top strategy / war game’ – designed for policy-makers and strategists working in the area of ecosystem based Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP), the development of sustainable Blue Growth and (Short Sea) Shipping.

... blue growth and short sea shipping

The game is loosely based upon the ‘Marine Spatial Planning Challenge’. It has been developed by the same team, at the request of the Netherlands’ ministry of Infrastructure and Environment (I&M) for the occasion of the high level group meeting on Short Sea Shipping (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 15, 2016).

rica sea

The game is played in the fictional marine area called the ‘Rica Sea’, an anagram for Rivers and Coastal Areas and used with kind permission of Searica, the EP Intergroup on IMP Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas.
The RICA sea is represented graphically on a large table top game board (1.60 x 2.80 m), with a stylized map of the fictional area.
Three countries – Island, Bayland and Peninsuland– shore the Rica Sea. The countries around it have only recently agreed to start planning their shared uses of the sea, by allocating functions to marine space over time.
Shippers sail across the RICA sea and along its shores...

THE CHALLENGE

The game is designed to take a few hours with about 20 players.
Players are assigned the role of planner or shippers in one of the three countries, Island, Bayland and Peninsuland
The main challenge for the players is to achieve Blue Growth (BG) and Good Environmental Status in their national and shared marine areas through the spatial allocation of economic and ecological functions and the development of short sea shipping. This is done by placing tokens on the game board. The tokens symbolize all kinds of human activities, ecological functions and shipping.

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