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.

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.
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."
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.
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.
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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In this round-up, Gamasutra highlights some of the notable jobs posted in its industry-leading game jobs section this week, including positions from Rockstar North, BioWare Austin, and more. Each position posted by employers will appear on the main Gamasutra job board, and appear in the site's daily and weekly newsletters, reaching our readers directly. It will also be cross-posted for free across its network of submarket sites, which includes content sites focused on online worlds, ...
National Geographic and mobile publisher I-Play have released Plan It Green, an ecology-themed simulation title for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Originally released for PC platforms, Plan It Green challenges players to turn a declining industrial town into a sustainable community by introducing green agriculture, eco-friendly homes, and environmentally clean jobs. The game includes a single-player campaign mode in which eight neighborhoods must receive green makeovers. Players will face new challenges and increasing difficulty throughout ...
The Games for Learning Institute, a joint project of Microsoft Research and a consortium of universities in the United States, announced a Game Design Challenge to encourage the creation of educational minigames for Microsoft's XNA Game Studio 3.1 platform. Submitted designs must outline a specific learning task, then describe how the game determines if the learning goal was achieved. Entries will be judged in the areas of technical implementation, educational appropriateness, and integration of design ...
Several game industry publishers and organizations, including Microsoft, Sony, and the Entertainment Software Association, have announced educational initiatives as part of President Barack Obama's call for progress in science and math education. The President's "Educate to Innovate" campaign aims to foster a greater nationwide focus on "STEM" (science, technology, engineering, and math) education, partially in response to the United States' lagging childhood and teenage rankings in science and math. "I'm committed to moving our country ...
In this round-up, Gamasutra highlights some of the notable jobs posted in its industry-leading game jobs section this week, including positions from Relic Entertainment, Zoe Mode and more. Each position posted by employers will appear on the main Gamasutra job board, and appear in the site's daily and weekly newsletters, reaching our readers directly. It will also be cross-posted for free across its network of submarket sites, which includes content sites focused on online worlds, ...
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