1. DBAT Disease Game Review
By: Faustina, Mayah, Pedro & Tori

2. Introduction

3. Elements that should be included

4. Elements that should be included: Causes
There are many different factors in the causes of disease. The main causes are below:
The different pathogens that can cause diseases
How the choices you make for your lifestyle can damage your health
Genetics that can cause certain types of diseases

5. Elements that should be included: Spread
Diseases can be spread and transmitted to lots of people in a short amount of time, and people need to know how to prevent them.
Different animals that can spread diseases (zoonotic diseases)
Other forms of transmissions
airborne
waterborne
fluidborne

6. Elements that should be included: Consequences
The consequences of diseases are multiple and dangerous, so preventing them before the consequences happen is very important. Some consequences are below:
Death because of the disease
Damage to your DNA and genetic material
Symptoms from the different diseases
Epidemics/pandemics

7. Elements that should be included: Management
Managing a disease outbreak has always been difficult to do, and once others know how to do it, they can do their part to stop it. Some forms of management are below:
Medications
Annual checkups
Vaccinations
Raising awareness/ Educating others
Isolation/Quarantine for infected people

8. Comparison: The Pros & Cons

9. Causes of Disease Solve the Outbreak Infection 2
Gives general information about pathogens
Doesn't have any causes from lifestyle choices or genetics
Infection 2
At the start it gives you a one pathogen to start with.
Gives little information about pathogen
Doesn't have a cause from lifestyle choices or genetics.

10. Spread of disease Solve the Outbreak
They give the definition of some diseases, but some of them, they are not explain fully, especially when the disease is spread by animals. So, far in the game we haven't seen any disease that talk about fluid borne or blood borne.
Infection 2
In the game it doesn't says anything about rabies and how to prevent them. They could also give more information on how animals or natural transmission can spread and how to prevent them.

11. Consequences of Disease
Solve the Outbreak
They include the death, injured count, and how they died, but don’t talk about damage to DNA
They talk a lot about characterizations of the disease
They talk about the possibility of an epidemic/pandemic, but don’t give a lot of information
Infection 2
Death is shown a lot, and there are a big variety of symptoms
They don’t give very descriptive or scientific descriptions for the symptoms, like Solve the Outbreak does
Includes a lot about epidemics and pandemics and their effects, while Solve the Outbreak doesn’t
Like Solve the Outbreak, Infection 2 doesn’t include information on damage to your DNA.

12. Management of Disease Infection 2 Solve the Outbreak
- They include news pops saying to sanitize to prevent the disease
- They use the news to tell people about the outbreak
- They don't include going for checkups or completing medications given
- They don't include vaccinations
- They don’t mention Quarantine and how it is used to manage a disease
Solve the Outbreak
-They didn't add information on annual checkups
-They could have explained Quarantine
-They say to use antibiotics to prevent rabies
-They say to go to the doctor once your feeling sick
-They talk about taking vaccinations

13. Suggestions for Improvement of Games

14. Suggestion for improvement: Causes
Infection 2
-Inform more about some pathogens.
- The genetics causes could be put in the resistance and transmission sections.
- Give the definition, about some genetics factors and lifestyle choices.
Solve the Outbreak
- Add more information in learn section.
- Talk about genetics causing diseases.
- Explain more in the definition, about some genetics factors and lifestyle choices.

15. Suggestion for improvement: Spread
Solve the Outbreak
-Don't show a variation of specific transmission of some diseases.
- Explain different ways the disease could be spread.
Infection 2
-Doesn't says anything about: dogs,cats and bats being the vectors for rabies
-Give more information about how different animals or natural transmission can spread the disease.

16. Suggestion for improvement: Consequence
Solve the Outbreak
-Need to include information about damage to DNA.
- Need to include information about epidemics and pandemics.
- Include in the game a level that have a case based in damage of DNA and a level with epidemic and pandemic.
Infection 2
-Add in the symptom section damage to DNA
- Add also epidemic and pandemic, and say the affects that they can have on the country or world.
- They could include more scientific and descriptive explanation of the symptoms.

17. Suggestion for improvement: Management
Solve the Outbreak
-None of the cases that we have played, they didn't talk about going to the hospital to do check ups.
- Explain about isolation and also explain about quarantine.
Infection 2
-It doesn't say anything about going for check ups, and making sure to get vaccination.
- They also don't mention quarantine and how it is used to management diseases.
- Don't explain about raising awareness.

18. Ratings of the Games

20. Overall Ratings Solve the Outbreak
We rated Solve the Outbreak 8/10 because it is very educational and it includes th

21. Conclusion Solve the Outbreak Realistic and educational
Not as entertaining
Infection 2
Semi-educational
Not as realistic
More interesting

22. Thank you for listening!
We hope that DBAT will consider our suggestions for the improvement of Solve the Outbreak and Infection 2