Recognise how the characters think: Crime Time Online

Crime Time Online – the concept

The online team event Crime Time starts with a trilling prologue which leads to the actual story line. Our project leader presents the different characters and explains the rule of the game for the evening.

Every player will be given a specific role. However: each role or character is represented multiple times. But everyone knows only part of what happened.

In the first game phase, all of the players who have the same role meet together in small groups. They exchange their knowledge about how the character changes during the course of crime with each other. In the second game phase, small groups are made of people who know about the course of events within the same time frame, but have different characters. Finally, all of the players come together and compare their results.

The police – our project leaders – breakdown the case of the crime and tell the rest of the story. Which group had the correct perpetrator in sight? Following this is a reflection to transfer the gained experiences and knowledge sustainably to everyday working life.