Pacific by Gamelearn: The Island Survival Game for Team Leaders
Pacific is a corporate training game about leading a team through a survival story on a Pacific island. Its maker, Gamelearn, now trades as Game Strategies, and the game is still offered in its catalog.
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What Pacific is and who made it
Gamelearn, a company with offices in Madrid and California, released Pacific on October 29, 2015, at an event at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. It was the third game in a line led by co-founder Ibrahim Jabary. Merchants, the first, trains negotiation and conflict resolution. Triskelion, the second, trains time management and personal productivity. Pacific takes on leadership and team management.
In 2016 Pacific won gold in the Corporate category of the International Serious Play Awards.
The company reported that building it took more than a year, input from the chief executives of large companies and an investment of two million euros. The game uses 3D modeling and HTML5, so it runs on computers, tablets and smartphones.
How the game teaches leadership
The story puts a group of people on a Pacific island after a crash. The player leads them, and the way out of the island depends on how well the group is managed and motivated.
Behind the story sits a course. Gamelearn built it from the contributions of more than 200 leading executives and from its own 15 years of corporate training experience at the time, around six notions: making teamwork meaningful, building a synergetic team, motivating the team, developing tools, delegating tasks correctly, and boosting teamwork through feedback and coaching.
Lessons are practiced in play. The company applies one structure across its catalog: a full soft-skills course, an online simulator where the skill is exercised, and a game that holds attention.
What is true today
The old Gamelearn address, game-learn.com, now forwards to gamestrategies.io. That site's footer reads Game Strategies (formerly Gamelearn), and its English catalog lists Pacific: Leadership and Team Management.
The catalog page describes an online video game with a simulator, about 8 hours long, with 22 interactive lessons, more than 25 realistic cases and 14 languages. Its story is the same island survival: after a crash, you and your team are stuck on a desert island. The page draws on over 200 interviews with CEOs, presidents and executives over a 12-year span.
The page shows no price and no free play link. It offers a demo on request, so Pacific is a product sold to companies.
Questions about Pacific
Is Pacific still available?
Yes. The Game Strategies catalog, the new home of Gamelearn, lists Pacific: Leadership and Team Management as a course for companies, with a demo on request.
What does Pacific teach?
Leading and managing teams: motivating people, resolving conflict, delegating, giving feedback and assessing performance, practiced in a simulator inside a survival story.
How long does Pacific take?
About 8 hours according to its catalog page, and it can be paused and resumed.
Who made Pacific?
Gamelearn, which now trades as Game Strategies. Ibrahim Jabary, a co-founder, led the first three games, Merchants, Triskelion and Pacific.