Grant: Engage Grants Program

Canfor is a leading integrated forest products company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Canfor employsapproximately 7,300 people as well as an additional 2,200 contractors. In 1965, Canfor expanded its operationswith the construction of Prince George Pulp and Paper Mill. Canfor Pulp Ltd. in Prince George contributesover 142,000 tonnes of pulp annually.This project proposes to develop a business modeled training game that is capable of educating Canfor Pulpemployees about the overall view of their work flow and the effects of their decisions in overall operations.The outcome of this project will be a web-based interactive computer game that is scalable, competitive,engaging, and educational. The game will model a simplified pulping system that captures the essence of theCanfor Pulp operation. It will include real-time strategies. There will be a predefined set of management rolesfor each department. The player will assume the role of the mill manager and is responsible for the success orfailure of the mill as the business encounters and overcomes common scenarios. The situations and challengesthat arise for each department will be impacted by the decision made by the player. The player will need tomake choices and decisions to address some typical business operating challenges. The game will generate thechallenges commonly encountered and then accept the player's decisions and generate the appropriate results inthe business model. The goal is to expose the cause and effect relationship that exists between variousdepartments within Canfor Pulp mill. Other features of the game will be the ability to log in and save each stateof the game, the competitive ranking of each player against other players, employee access control with Canfor,training the employee's real-time decision-making abilities, and custom branding.