Thinking of Designing a Game for Dissertation - Need Advice

I'm currently writing my final year university dissertation. My topic is to do with urban resilience, which basically means the ability of cities and towns to recover/bounce back after disasters and withstand chronic stresses on the system.

As part of the dissertation I need to do something which will increase the impact my project has on society, so to do this I'd like to design a game. I ran the idea passed my supervisor and he seems very keen on the idea. I had initially planned to design a board game, but I don't think I …