The Central Bank will create the mobile application game for training of Russians in economy

The Central Bank wants to increase knowledge of Russians of the bases of the economy, key terms and the principles of monetary policy through a mobile economic game. Tender not its development is placed by bank on November 7, 2017. The cost of creation of a game is estimated at 11.8 million rubles.^[1]

The Central Bank wants to create a mobile game for training of Russians in economy

The specific scenario of a game should prepares after consultations with bank. At the same time, a game should be created in a genre of single-user strategy for citizens 15 years are more senior. The game purpose – through game mechanics to increase understanding by target audience of bases of functioning of economy, the purposes and the principles of monetary policy.

General mechanics of a game is as follows: the user gets to the thought-up world issued in the form of the difficult mechanism which models (in the simplified type) the economic processes close to real. The user can manage the mechanism (and respectively, economy of the conditional city) using different tools (levers, valves, valves, buttons, etc.), being in conditional command center.

The user's task – to start the system of the mechanism and to keep it in balance (to avoid leakages, explosions, damage of the mechanism), to develop it. Events of a game develop under the influence of the solutions of the user and "external" conditions which are initially put by the developer. Development of a plot should be logical and should be based on the economic theory and knowledge of the user, to be told in terms of reference. In process of a game the level of complexity should grow due to expansion of the system, emergence of new elements.

Complete playing the game should take 2-3 months.

Game should be supported by operating systems iOS of version 9.x and also Android of version 4.2.x and above is higher. It is separately specified that the application should function on TOP-50 models of devices on Android OS used in Russia.

Game should be placed by the developer in official app stores of AppStore and Google Play Market on behalf of the Central Bank. All works on creation of a game should be completed no later than November 30, 2018.

The developer of a game will be selected from the second half of December, 2017.

At the end of August, 2017 the Central Bank started an information and educational resource on financial literacy and the culture of Fincult.info. Its purpose — formation of financial culture of citizens. The website is intended for wide audience with a different volume of knowledge of economy and different financial opportunities.

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