Serious Gamesby Ralph Cajucom
What are Serious Games?
What are Serious Games?
Serious games are “…about taking resources of the (video) games industry and applying them outside of entertainment,". This means creating games that play roles in areas such as education, health, public policy, science, government and corporate training.”- Ben Sawyer, co-founder of Digitalmill Inc
What do Serious Games bring and why are they so important?
-Collaborative experiences.-New modes of learning and training.-Encourage exploration-Challenge us.-Develop our skills.-Engages with our emotions.-Blending virtual and real experiences. (eg mixed reality)
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Examples of Serious Games
America’s Army
“America's Army is one of the most successful serious game released, which gives players insight into army training and recruitment as a tool for the U.S. Army, as well as an entertaining game for both PC and console players.”-Robert BrownVice president of Business and Legal Affairs for Pragmatic Solutions
Examples of Serious Games
America’s Army
America’s Army: Operations, was released on July 4th 2002. -More than 7 million registered users.-Total of 160 million player’s game hours since its debut.
On average, players complete more than 120,000 hours exploring the Army in America’s Army each day.
Examples of Serious Games
Virtual Heroes
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Examples of Serious Games
Zero Hour: America’s Medic
Examples of Serious Games
Zero Hour: America’s Medic
Serious Games Market
A serious games market will also require game developers to shift from the traditional business-to-consumer model to a business-to-business one.- Senior Writer for Innovation & Design on BusinessWeek.com
Why is Web 2.0 is a major factor to serious games?
“We are living through one of the most disruptive periods in history with technological development, we are moving from a society which is has always been based on consuming information and knowledge into a society which has the tools now which enables anyone to be a publisher and producer of media.”-David Wortley Director of the Serious Games Institute
Serious Games
Reference &Sources
http://barney.inspire.anglia.ac.uk/minisites/serious/index.htmlSerious Games on the Move, International Conference, Cambridge, 23-24 June 2008
http://www.seriousgames.org/about.html
http://seriousgamessource.com/features/feature_060606_pragmatic.php
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/aug2007/id20070813_409882.htm
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/aug2007/id20070813_756874_page_2.htm
http://www.virtualheroes.com/
http://news.cnet.com/Whats-wrong-with-serious-games/2100-1043_3-6052346.html
http://www.calt.insead.edu/Encyclopedia/?serious%20games