DNAnna

Anna Zorggroep wanted employees to explore other roles and reflect on their own values. The idea was a game that plays like a real workday, where every choice says something about how you work, without right or wrong answers. The tricky part was that it had to run on locked-down, low-spec Citrix computers.

I built it in PlayCanvas. HR wrote the scenarios in Excel, and a Python script I wrote turned those sheets into game content, so they could keep editing without touching code. On Citrix the game and its videos fought over the graphics card, so I pause the 3D rendering while a video plays. That got it running smoothly on the restricted machines. I also added analytics that record every choice.

Pick one of seven care roles and work through a shift on a map of the facility. Every situation has three responses, each tied to one of Anna's values (Lef, Samen, Vertrouwd) and each costing time. At the end you get your DNAnna: a DNA helix of your values and a replay of every choice.

Employees are using it, and it runs well on the hardware the client was worried about. They hadn't asked for the analytics, but it quickly became something they value.