“You are the world and the world is you”
Shivam Shukla

Serious Games for Wildfire Preparedness

Painted illustration of a wildfire burning across the Hollywood hills

Research Overview

In this project, we developed a discourse-centered, triangulated methodology to understand how player-to-player communication in serious games fosters collaborative learning, shared understanding, and collective action for real-world wildfire challenges.

Research Objectives

  1. Analyze discourse patterns in collaborative serious games for wildfire preparedness
  2. Identify and synthesize key communication strategies that facilitate knowledge transfer
  3. Develop a methodology for evaluating collaborative learning in game-based disaster education
  4. Create design guidelines for effective resilience-based serious games

Contributions

M. Escarce Junior, M. Johns, S. Shukla, D. Lee, Y. Lu, et al.

Fostering Collaborative Knowledge-Building and Resilience Through Player Discourse in Serious Games for Wildfire Preparedness

Paper accepted in JCSG’25

Dr. Magy Seif El-Nasr presented this research in December 2025 at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Rotkreuz, Switzerland.

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M. Escarce Junior, M. Johns, S. Shukla, D. Lee, M. Hendawy, et al.

Talking Wildfire: How Discourse in Serious Games Shapes Collaborative Learning and Preparedness

FDG’26

I presented this work at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, Denmark in August 2026 (virtually).

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