  Emergency evacuation plans and evacuation drills are mandatory in public
buildings in many countries. Their importance is considerable when it comes to
guarantee safety and protection during a crisis. However, sometimes
discrepancies arise between the goals of the plan and its outcomes, because
people find it hard to take them very seriously, or due to the financial and
time resources required. Serious games are a possible solution to tackle this
problem. They have been successfully applied in different areas such as health
care and education, since they can simulate an environment/task quite
accurately, making them a practical alternative to real-life simulations. This
paper presents a serious game developed using Unity3D to recreate a virtual
fire evacuation training tool. The prototype application was deployed which
allowed the validation by user testing. A sample of 30 individuals tested the
evacuating scenario, having to leave the building during a fire in the shortest
time possible. Results have shown that users effectively end up learning some
evacuation procedures from the activity, even if only to look for emergency
signs indicating the best evacuation paths. It was also evidenced that users
with higher video game experience had a significantly better performance.
