]init[ developed a solution for the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (German abbr. BMWi) how to package business information in an entertaining way and procuring it in a playful manner: on playing Industry Quartet the visitors of the BMWi website can now prove and deepen their knowledge about the German branches of trade.

In former days on the playground one used to compare drive, speed or limit speed. However, the salient characteristics here are the turnover of the automobile industry against the aerospace industry’s one, and the export ratio of the rail industry gains the food industry’s one. The visitor finds out in the match against a virtual representative of the Ministry, for instance that Germany has twice as many chemical companies as paper-processing companies, or that the woodworking industry employs 63,000 more people than the ship and boat building industry.