I chose to create a game about Panic buying. my research was in the form of observation and two interviews one with my mom who is the best example of a panic buyer and another interview with a small grocery store owner, my questions were mainly about clients who regularly buy from him to try to monitor the change in their buying behavior. I chose canned food and fresh food because he mentioned that most of the people who usually buy from him fresh food started to buy frozen and canned food in bulk even though they don’t do that. What i want people to think about from my game is the real reason behind their excessive shopping and why they are suddenly buying in bulks. studies have shown that panic shopping is because of herd behavior, people start to panic when they anticipate shortage and so they start to buy in bulks, then other people notice that others are over buying so they do the same thing which therefore creates a shortage. people end up creating what they anticipated would happen. A clear example of this is when there was a storm a month ago and this is what started my interest. EGYPTIANS CREATED SHORTAGE OUT OF NOTHING. supplies were running out from supermarket even-though the weather forecast anticipated the storm will last two days, people were still buying like it would last weeks. My players will face different scenarios and they will have to make decisions that will have different consequences. they will go on a journey from the minute they leave their house to the minute they leave the supermarket.
These are the images I used i got all my images from Pixabay.com
https://pixabay.com/vectors/canned-food-tin-can-vegetables-149221/
https://pixabay.com/vectors/shopping-cart-basket-pushcart-29647/
https://pixabay.com/vectors/market-icon-supermarket-store-food-5043879/
https://pixabay.com/vectors/swiss-cheese-swiss-cheese-food-575540/
https://pixabay.com/vectors/counter-sales-man-supermarket-309880/
https://pixabay.com/vectors/medical-icon-isolated-sickness-5055813/
https://pixabay.com/illustrations/quarantine-coronavirus-home-office-5049110/
Nardine Emad 