SimGame Healthcare — Executive Decision Simulation

An interactive multiplayer business simulation game where participants role-play as hospital emergency directors during a crisis, making strategic investment decisions to optimize healthcare operations.

Built for Softtek Discovery workshop events.

🎮 How It Works

1. Welcome — Players enter their name and join an event
2. Strategy — Choose 2 of 5 strategic objectives (scored at 2x weight)
3. Decisions — Allocate a 10,000 credit budget across 15 decision cards in 3 categories:
   • 🤖 AI Technology — High accuracy/efficiency, slow to implement
   • 🔄 Processes — Balanced impact across all metrics
   • 👥 Patient Experience — High NPS, fast to implement
4. Results — See your score, charts, strategic analysis, and live leaderboard

Metrics

Metric	Description
NPS	Patient Satisfaction
Burnout	Staff Wellbeing
Efficiency	Operational Optimization
Accuracy	Medical Precision
Go-to-Market	Implementation Speed

🏗️ Architecture

public/                    ← Frontend (Azure Static Web Apps)
├── index.html             ← Minimal shell
├── admin.html             ← Admin panel (event management)
├── css/styles.css         ← All styles
├── js/
│   ├── app.js             ← Main orchestrator (state, navigation, game flow)
│   ├── api.js             ← API layer (events + players, scoped by eventId)
│   ├── data.js            ← Constants (decisions, metrics, helpers)
│   └── views/
│       ├── welcome.js     ← Welcome screen
│       ├── objectives.js  ← Strategy selection
│       ├── game.js        ← Decision cards + budget tracking
│       ├── results.js     ← Charts, ranking, Excel export
│       ├── admin.js       ← Admin view (legacy, used by in-event admin)
│       └── docs.js        ← Decision guide modal

api/                       ← Backend (Azure Functions, Node.js)
├── events/                ← Events CRUD API
│   ├── function.json
│   └── index.js
├── players/               ← Players API (scoped by event)
│   ├── function.json
│   └── index.js
├── host.json
└── package.json

Multi-Event System

Each event is fully isolated with its own players and leaderboard:

• Events stored in Azure Table Storage (events table)
• Players stored with eventId as partitionKey (players table)
• URL routing: /?event=colombia-mar-2026 → specific event
• Admin panel: /admin.html → create/manage events

API Endpoints

Method	Endpoint	Description
GET	/api/events?id=xxx	Get event config
GET	/api/events	List all events
POST	/api/events	Create event
GET	/api/players?event=xxx	Get players for event
POST	/api/players?event=xxx	Save player result
DELETE	/api/players?event=xxx	Reset event players

🚀 Local Development

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18+
• Azure Functions Core Tools v4
• SWA CLI

Setup

1. Clone the repo:

   git clone https://github.com/Softtek-Innovation-Lab/simgame-healthcare.git
   cd simgame-healthcare

2. Install API dependencies:

   cd api && npm install && cd ..

3. Create api/local.settings.json:

   {
     "IsEncrypted": false,
     "Values": {
       "FUNCTIONS_WORKER_RUNTIME": "node",
       "AzureWebJobsStorage": "UseDevelopmentStorage=true",
       "AZURE_STORAGE_CONNECTION_STRING": "<your-azure-storage-connection-string>"
     },
     "Host": {
       "CORS": "*"
     }
   }

4. Run locally:

   swa start public --api-location api

5. Open http://localhost:4280/?event=your-event-id

Creating Your First Event

Via the admin panel:

1. Go to http://localhost:4280/admin.html
2. Enter the admin code
3. Fill in event ID + name → Create

Or via curl:

curl -X POST http://localhost:4280/api/events \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"eventId":"my-event","title":"EXECUTIVE DECISION SIMULATION","subtitle":"Your subtitle","eventName":"Event Name - Date","adminUsername":"yourusername","adminDisplayName":"YourName"}'

📦 Deployment

Deployed as an Azure Static Web App. Push to master triggers the GitHub Actions workflow.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS (ES Modules), Chart.js, SheetJS
• Backend: Azure Functions (Node.js)
• Storage: Azure Table Storage
• Hosting: Azure Static Web Apps
• Fonts: Orbitron + JetBrains Mono