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A place for people with an interest in serious games

Serious games (SGs) or persuasive games are computer and video games used as persuasion technology or educational technology. They can be similar to educational games, but are often intended for an audience outside of primary or secondary education.

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SeriousGames.ning.com is intended as a web portal to serious games news, resources and companies. Its secondary goal is to enable networking between anyone with an interest in serious games. To get started networking create a profile by clicking the 'join' link on the right of this page. Once you are a member everything you add to this site: profile, pictures, video, blog posts, forum posts, friends lists etc... can be accessed via your 'my page'. Think of this as your serious games 'mySpace'. Why not link to this page from your website or email signature? My page is here. There are over 4 hours of videos here and many research papers here. Contact us at seriousgame@gmail.com

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Serious Games Web Links

serious games canada portal

sric-bi.com/VWC - Virtual-Worlds Consortium for Innovation and Learning

seriousaboutgames.co.uk - West Midlands (UK) Serious Games Web Portal

seriousgamessource.com - Serious Games Web Portal, News, Features and Community.

watercoolergames.org - Serious Games Web Portal, News, Features and Community.

seriousgames.org - US Public Sector Serious Games Initiative.

sgseurope.com - European Serious Games Summit.

applyseriousgames.com - UK Serious Games Conference.

seriousgamessummit.com - US Serious Games Summit.

gamesforhealth.org - US Healthcare Serious Games Summit.

gamesforchange.org - social change/social issues branch of the Serious Games Initiative

Game Developers Conference

elearningguild.com - Community of Practice for e-Learning design, development, and management professionals.

Educational Games Produced by the Federation of American Scientists.

defencegaming.org - initiative from Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV)

educationarcade.org - explores games that promote learning through authentic and engaging play

North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA)

Joint Futures Laboratory

Linden Lab

US DoD Game Developers' Community

MacArthur Foundation launched its five-year, $50 million digital media and learning initiative in 2006

games that help players learn the ways of thinking 'the epistemologies' of the digital age

socialstudygames.com

Add Knowledge embeds the entire Scottish primary school curriculum within state-of-the-art video games

Houston Serious Games Consortium (HSGC)

ACT UK - The Centre for construction management training using virtual reality stimulation technology

The Learning Lab - centre of excellence to support all those involved in the design, development and use of learning technologies.

ADL Co-Lab (JADL) - integrating instruction and technology to meet the military's training requirements

Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA)

The International Journal of Computer Game Research

educause - Games and Simulations

p4games.org - Pixels, Programming, Play, & Pedagogy (P4)

Serious Games Companies, Academics & Consultants

seriousgamessource.com - Features

GDCTV: Assessment for Interactive Training Applications

GDCTV presents this session from 2005's Serious Games Summit entitled "Assessment for Interactive Training Applications," in which a panel of serious game experts discuss how state data is captured and how assessment is being used in serious games.

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GDCTV: Riding the Cutting Edge of Distributed Intelligence

This session of GDCTV features medical neuroscientist David Warner sharing his experience and discussing some of the work he has done in next-generation human computer interfaces, systems, and cognition in "Riding the Cutting Edge of Distributed Intelligence."

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Game Developers Conference Proceedings Archive

Just updated, the Game Developer Conference's Proceedings Archives now features proceedings from last year's GDC in San Francisco, as well as last year's Serious Games Summit in Washington D.C.

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GDCTV: HazMat Hotzone: First-Person First Responder Gaming

GDCTV features representatives from Carnegie Mellon University and the 44th Engine Co. of the New York Fire Department presenting their experiences on the HazMat Hotzone project in this case study.

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Serious Games In Academia

Coventry University - Serious Games Institute

Serious Games Applied Research Group (SGARG) - Coventry University

serious game design institute - Santa Barbara

htgg project - stanford

Birmingham University - Serious Games Team

futurelab

The MOVES Institute - Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation

ISAGA - International Simulation and Gaming Association

MSU - GEL Lab

"Simulations and Games in Education" research group

SAGE (Simulation and Gaming Environments for Learning)

Experimental Game Lab at Georgia Tech

Center for Computer Games Research IT University of Copenhagen

DiGRA is the association for academics and professionals who research digital games and associated phenomena

GRAVEL - Game Research and Virtual Environment Lab

The Game Research Laboratory (GameLab) in the University of Tampere

Games Group, Uni Magdeburg

MIT Microsoft - Games To Teach

Mixed Reality Lab - National University of Singapore

GAPPS [Games and Professional Practice Simulations]

The Human Interface Technology Lab (HITLab)

epistemic games group - University of Wisconsin-Madison

SUMMIT (Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies)

The Comm Tech Lab - MSU

The Game Design Initiative at Cornell University (GDIAC)

Pulse - The Virtual Clinical Learning Lab - Texas A & M

The Simulation and Synthetic Environment Laboratory (SSEL) - Cranfield University

The "Values at Play" (VAP) research project - Hunter College

InGaMe Lab is a reseach group at the University of Sk¶vde

The Emergent Media Center at Champlain College

USC - GamePipe Laboratory

USC - Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT)

Guildhall at SMU

Computer Graphics and Games Research Projects - University of Sheffield

SMARTlab - University of East London

The London Knowledge Lab

Synthetic Worlds Initiative research center - Indiana University

King's Visualisation Lab (KVL) - Kings College London

Humane Games - Denver University

Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) - Carnegie Mellon

NMSU Learning Games Lab
 

What Are Serious Games ?

A serious game may be a simulation which has the look and feel of a game, but corresponds to non-game events or processes, including business operations and military operations. The games are intended to provide an engaging, self-reinforcing context in which to motivate and educate the players. Other purposes for such games include marketing and advertisement. The largest users of SGs are the US government and medical professionals. Other commercial sectors are actively pursuing development of these types of tools as well. Serious games require you to use your skill and initiative and a strategy, unlike games of chance like playing the lottery or bingo games.

You can join the Serious Games Initiative's email discussion list here.

Our Serious Games Wiki Site is here. Our Serious Games Blog is here.
Our Serious Games Twine is here.
Our Serious Games Facebook Group is here.


Socialimpactgames.com has an excellent directory of serious games here.
As does SuperSmartGames.com here.


Simulation games are available for download at:
games.chocosnow.com
simulation.1up.com
pixelparadox.com
freedownloadscenter.com

devmaster.net has a database of 3D game engines here.

simulation games on compsimgames.about.com.

More Info at Wikipedia Entry For Serious Games
More Info at Wikipedia Entry For Elearning
More Info at Wikipedia Entry For Simulation Game
More Info at Wikipedia Entry For Wargaming
More Info at Wikipedia Entry For Advergaming
More Info at Wikipedia Entry For Game Based Learning
More Info at Wikipedia Entry For Exergaming
More Info at The Mahalo Entry For Serious Games
More Info at The 'CALT Encyclopedia' Entry For Serious Games

Serious games search on google.com
Serious games search on blogsearch.google.com
Serious games links on del.icio.us
Serious games blogs on technorati.com/tag/serious+games
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Serious games photos on flickr.com
Serious games video on video.google.co.uk
Serious games academic papers search on scholar.google.com and on our forum.

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UT Dallas Professor Designs Game to Improve Student Retention

UT Dallas Professor Designs Game to Improve Student Retention:

University of Texas at Dallas professor Michael J. Savoie has secured a $250,000 grant toward the development of an interactive online game designed to introduce incoming UT Dallas students to…


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You May Not Be Ranking As Well As You Think In Google

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You May Not Be Ranking As Well As You Think In Google

If you are an internet marketer and website owners you may be getting the wrong results when they are using Google. Hear is what is occurring….


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America's Army Most Effective Recruitment Tool for U.S. Army

The Washington Examiner reports that America's Army is a more effective U.S. Army recruitment tool than "any other method of contact," according to recent Army testimony to Congress. America's Army is a series of first-person shooter titles developed in cooperation with the U.S. Army. The PC version of America's Army is available as a free download from the U.S. Army's website, and commercial versions are sold for the Xbox and Xbox 360. The article cites ...

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Serious Games Interactive Launches Global Conflicts: Sweatshops

Serious Games Interactive has released the latest title in its Global Conflicts series of PC games that promote awareness of social issues. Global Conflicts: Sweatshops is a 3D role-playing simulation game that focuses on child labor issues in Bangladesh. Players control a representative of European Leatherwear Industries called to Bangladesh to investigate an alleged case of child labor. The sweatshop is located in a local tannery that produces clothing for the character's employer. Successful completion ...

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Triangle Game Conference 2010 Issues Call for Submissions

The Triangle Game Conference has announced a call for panel, lecture, and roundtable speakers for its upcoming 2010 event focused on the interactive entertainment and serious games industries. Currently, Triangle is searching for speaker submissions in five lecture tracks: Game Development, Engines & Middleware, Immersive Learning, Business of Games, and Games & Media. Interested parties have until December 18th, 2009, to submit an application to speak at next year's Triangle Game Conference. Session applications may ...

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MDM Announces $50,000 Prize for Social Change Project

The Masters of Digital Media (MDM) Program at Vancouver's Great Northern Way campus announced that it will award $50,000 to a chosen digital media-based project that promotes a philanthropic cause or positive social change initiative. The proposed project must address issues of environmental and educational sustainability within a local, national, or global community. The $50,000 prize includes a team of multidisciplinary graduate students enrolled in the Masters of Digital Media Program. Together, the selected student ...

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American Council on Exercise Charts 'Underwhelming' Wii Fit Health Benefits

The American Council on Exercise (ACE), a leading fitness authority and training organization, has released the results of a study that tested the effectiveness of Nintendo's exercise tool and balance trainer Wii Fit. The study, conducted in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin La Crosse Exercise and Health Program, found that Wii Fit produced "underwhelming results," in terms of exercise intensity. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin tested the Free Run, Island Run, Free Step, ...

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Serious Games Podcasts & Breeze Casts

MSU Gel Lab and Serious Games Initiative:

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Michigan State offers graduate degree in "serious games":

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Are there educational benefits to be gained from participating in video game play? Stephen Berlin Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good for You, discusses how video games have changed significantly over the past three decades:

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As I slowly reach the conclusion of my NASAGA keynote, I begin to describe a simulation game, or what we are currently calling a “serious game.â€

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More Than Just A Game panelists discuss the value of games beyond traditional entertainment. A representative of the Department of Defense who holds the title of "Chief Gamer" explains how the Joint Futures Lab invests millions of dollars to develop complex simulations.:

http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail1262.html

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The panel, entitled, "Do Videogames Help Kids Learn," is part of a five-year, $50 million dollar examination on how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize and participate in civic life. The initiative is both marshaling what is already known about the field and seeding innovation for continued growth.:

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Prior to the Learning Technologies 2007 conference earlier this year Don Taylor, the Conference Chairman and WHLA's Vaughan Waller recorded this conversation about serious games. The session at the conference chaired by Vaughan, was one of the most popular sessions, showing the intense level of interest in this subject. (March 2007):

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