ECB - Eurospiele
Launch (through a competition):
Exhibition versions: Sept. 2008
Internet, download versions: March 2009
Euro run extra versions: June 2009
About:
The European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt’s main activity is to preserve the Euro’s economic stimulation and stabilise its value.
The commissioning department’s main task is brokering information about the currency, particularly its security features.
Implementation:
The goal was to get to know the most important security features of the Euro banknotes and coins. The games were created for the 22 languages of the European Union, with different encoding for Greek and Lithuanian. pmm gmbh developed game concepts and layouts together with the ECB, in order to create the games. Aftercare also included user tests and evaluations.
The following versions of the games were created:
- Exhibition: controlled by touchscreen and integrated in Sitekiosk, so that the user can only play.
- Internet: lower resolution game, keyboard-controlled, sound can be switched off, automatically takes over website language.
- Download: various versions for Mac and PC.
- Euro Run, network competition – extra version where users at exhibitions can play against one another. Results are presented in an overall high score.
- Euro Run, web competition – extra version with which users can play against each other in an open and/or closed competition online.
Technique / components:
Game conception, layout design, Flash, Action Script, UTF-8, XHTML, MySQL, multi-lingual (22 languages), user tests
