Corporate Training

See also

1. Intro - What is Culica?
2. Intro to Culica leaflet here (PDF).
3. Culica - how to play and games rules - Culica games rules (PDF: 2MB download).
4. See Culica in action on the YouTube Culica Channel.

Culica can teach more skills than any other game I know of. - James Eadon, inventor of Culica

Culica

Culica is well suited to training because it teaches ideas of cooperation and competition. Culica games are very easy to learn and can be studied alone, or cooperatively in groups.

Easy level: what skills will you get from Culica?

1. Cooperation and Competiton - some Culica multi-player games require mixtures of both
2. Culica has 3D geometry, so enhances 3D spacial learning
3. Culica teaches strategy and tactics
4. Culica is fun to create patterns on, so can teach aspects of art and creativity.

Because Culica games are both single player - and multi-player (1 to 12 players) Culica games can be studied when alone, or cooperatively in groups, which suits both introverts and extroverts alike.

More advanced skills:

1. Advanced strategy and tactics - patterns, planning and thinking ahead.
2. The trade-offs and dilemmas between competition and cooperation
3. Problem solving: The Four Colour theorem of map colouring
4. Creativity - inventing new games rules or tweaking existing games rules to make new games
5. Art and design ideas: visual art, interactive art, conceptual art and sculpture.
6. Optimisation techniques
7. Advanced problem solving

Culica can teach new skills to people of of all ages and abilities, from those with no qualifications up to geniuses. Most of all, Culica makes learning deep principals really fun - so much fun that people may not notice they are learning!

CuLogic

So what can people learn in particular. Let us give you one example.

"CuCombat", one of the games that can be played on the Culica, has rather surprising game play tactics... Culica CuCombat is a game where the objective is to achieve a certain goal, such as putting pegs on a cube to make a certain shape or pattern, called a "Combat". For multi-player CuCombat for more than two players, players can be "selfish" - going for the win instead of blocking others from winning. That risks being "punished" by the other players, should those players feel offended and vengeful and then go into vigilante mode, by thwarting the selfish player's tactics on the Culica. Or players can cooperate but (temporarily) forego a chance of winning the game by doing so. For example, a player could block another player from making a winning move, but thereby forego a move that improves his own position.

This creates dilemmas, that are familiar to students of "game theory". "Game Theory" is the study of "games" in the sense of situations where one can cooperate with others to mutual benefit, or "defect". If you defect, you can gain even more benefit, but at the expense of other players, who may then be tempted to punish you, even if they suffer an inconvenience to do so. This is a bit like real life, where people have a powerful instinct to go out of their way to punish cheats or parasites.

Multi--player Culica CuCombat is not only brilliant fun, but can be used to teach players about life. It can teach people of all ages important insights about the conflict and interplay between cooperation and selfish tactics. Such lessons could be applied to interpersonal situations in every day life. The lessons also apply to competition amongst organisations, such as corporations, or departments within corporations. Organisations cooperate with each other and compete with each other, often at the same time. For example, a commercial organisation may form a partnership with another commercial organisation on improving a product, yet directly compete with them when selling a different product.

Culica games are all about fun. But as an unintended side effect of the fun, they can provide lessons in life, and in commerce!

For more information, whether you are a corporate or industrial trainer, academic teacher, or are simply curious to know more, please contact James Eadon at Culica. James and rest of the Culica Team would be delighted to answer any questions you may have.

Cordially yours,

The Culica Team

Culica ® is a registered trade mark of Culica Limited and is covered by worldwide patents pending. © 2010 Culica Limited