Projeto de um módulo climático para um simulador de gestão rural

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a climate module for a serious game format farm management simulator, built with a modular architecture that makes use of the object-oriented paradigm on the Unity game development engine. Meteorological and climatological aspects directly influence vegetation growth and animal behavior. The management of a rural property is thus directly linked to the characteristics of the region to which the property belongs, requiring a module that corresponds to regional conditions, so that a realistic simulation can be obtained. The most necessary elementary variables for managers were treated: temperature variations, amount of precipitation, air humidity and hours of sunshine per day. It is noteworthy that the years with occurrences of El Niño and La Niña were analyzed separately, due to their great influence on South American weather conditions. The primary data source for the analysis of these variables was the BDMEP - Banco de Dados Meteorológicos para Ensino e Pesquisa, which has weather data, in digital form, from historical series of the various weather stations of INMET’s network of stations. The analyzes were made with R in order to identify probability distributions to represent the climate data cited. After analysis, a random value generator was implemented for the necessary distributions in order to generate data consistent with reality, later used in the implementation of the climate module. The implemented weather module has been integrated into the SIMCOW game, thus making the game more realistic compared to its original version.