Best Government Interactive Application

“Life of a Building“ is an online educational game showing the challenges of keeping an old rental building in good financial and physical health. The goal of the game and see if you can make it to 15 years! To do so, a player needs to make make quick decisions about very difficult situations, including remortgaging, pest control, tenant evictions, natural disasters, etc. A player's performance is constantly judged on the status of the building's financial, physical and social health. The game has three levels of difficulty (all of which are very hard due to the nature of the challenge), and can be played multiple times because the random nature of the challenges makes no two games the same. The game is targeted at NYC politicians, city board members, housing officials, and investors in the rental real estate market.

Contributors:

CEO/Creative Director:	Bob Holmes
COO/Executive Producer:	Lan Wong
Head of Technology:	Joel Mellin
Project Manager:	Rhys Warburton
Designer:	Dragan Grubesic
Tech Lead:	Alen Baja
Executive Prod/CNYCHPC:	Daniel Parcerisas
Executive Prod/NYCHPC:	Sarah Watson

SUDDEN INDUSTRIES

Website: www.suddenindustries.com

Location: USA

About the Agency:

Sudden Industries (Sudden) (www.suddenindustries.com) is an award-winning, privately held digital agency based in New York City. Sudden was founded over 20 years ago by entertainment and media veteran Bob Holmes. Sudden provides strategic, creative, and technology solutions to some of the world’s best kids, family and education brands, including PBS, WNET, Nickelodeon, Pearson, the US Dept. of Education, WTTW, the Committee for Children, DHX, Barnes & Noble, Mad Science, Simon & Schuster, Random House and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Sudden’s solutions have included responsive websites, games, apps, content management systems, ecommerce portals, and kiosks for digital education products such as Nature Cat, Cyberchase, Magic Tree House, Poptropica, Funbrain, Nick Jr. Boost, UMIGO, Galactic Hotdogs, Sparknotes, Mind Yeti, Carmen Sandiego and Adventure Pig. Sudden is known as a market leader based on the quality of its work and has been recognized over 75 times by prestigious awards including: The Webbies, The One Club, The Art Directors Club, The Web Awards, The Communicator Awards, the Daveys, the IAC Awards, and the Mobile Awards.