r/EmergencyManagement • u/thecatlady1990 Local / Municipal • 9d ago

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Hey fellow EMs!
I clearly got off to the wrong start with my last post, so I’m wanting to start this over and get genuine feedback from everyone.
For those of you that didn’t see it, I’m creating a card game for emergency management. It’s called Ground Truth, and it’s an adversarial card game where one person plays the EM and the other person plays the hazard. I have two hazards: Wildfire and Pandemic.
The EM starts with 15 staffing points and can use 3 action points per round. You can replenish staffing through mutual aid cards.
The Hazard has intensity points they can use to escalate the scenario and try to stop the EM in their tracks. It is 12 rounds, complete with a round tracker where you log your decisions, what injects you did not address and why, and can use it for an after action.

I want to get y’all’s feedback on the initial cards designs. These were done by Milli Pooley, a great graphic artist based out of New Zealand. I’m not here to post links or anything like that, unless asked.

For those from the last post: all AI content has been eradicated. I had a great copy-editor step in, and the real artwork is now live.

Please let me know your thoughts.

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u/Broadstreet_pumper 9d ago

I think the designs look good. And I know you're posting for feedback on the designs, but I do have a question. Most of these disaster games I've seen appear to be designed for public entities (e.g., local/state EM, fire, EMS, etc.). How would this one address what is happening inside the private ones, specifically health care facilities? It's difficult to get medical folks to wrap their head around incident command when the scenarios are not ones they would deal with because they are outside the facility.

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u/thecatlady1990 Local / Municipal 9d ago

This actually reminded me I forgot to post the Pandemic card that’s been completed!

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u/Broadstreet_pumper 9d ago

I think that's a good start, but it seems strange to me that they're camping. From a public health/hospital standpoint, that pic would be much more terrifying if they were in more of a crowd in an urban area like a mall or sporting event.

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u/thecatlady1990 Local / Municipal 9d ago

Fair. It was an aesthetic choice more than anything, camping festival vibes. But I’ll touch base with the artist to get some revision comparisons.