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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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)
Play A Serious Game Now !
budget hero
funbrain.com - site for online educational games for children
Library Arcade - Carnegie Mellon Libraries
primarygames.com - site for online educational games for young children
kentucky fried cruelty - battle KFC
stopdisastersgame.org - UN Disaster Game
Shell Real Energy Challenges
Disaster Watch Challenges
World Food Program Game
Learn About Oil Company Greed
ASPCA - dog games
scottishmarketingcommunity.com
costlife.org - 3rd world life game
darfurisdying.com
Play September 12th
3rd world farmer
hagames.org
seattle.gov - waterbusters
CO2fx - lexiconsys.com
Global Kids Serious Games Island in SecondLife
The Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends
mysavingsquest.com
BBC - climate challenge
gel.msu.edu - life preservers
nurse avenger
brainsrule.com
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.
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."
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.
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.
Serious Games In Academia
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
Academic Journals
Serious Games Papers and Reports
Becta - Computer Games in Education project: Report
Futurelab - teaching with games
How can computer games offer deep learning and still be fun? - University of Ballarat
Learning in Immersive Worlds: a review of game based learning
Games and e-learning - caspianlearning - By Donald Clark
Applications In Defence - R.J. Stone
Serious Gaming - R.J. Stone
modelbenders.com - list of papers
Ecology of Games - The MacArthur Foundation
socialimpactgames.com - list of papers
digra digital library - list of papers
The International Journal of Computer Game Research
White Papers from Pixel Learning
journals.sfu.ca/loading
The SAGE Repository
IEEE-CS Task Force on Game Technology
The Digiplay Initiative
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Serious Games Blogs
avantgame.blogspot.com
businessandgames.com/blog
terranova.blogs.com
ethicalgames.wordpress.com
second life games
game-research.com
konzack.blogspot.com
zang.org/blog/
seriousgamesportal.blogspot.com/
blog.enspire.com
Ecology-of-Games
richardcarey.net
play2train.hopto.org
archsl.wordpress.com
secondliferesearch.blogspot.com
gamepolitics.com
henryjenkins.org
wonderlandblog.com
tonyforster.blogspot.com
secondlifeinsider.com
imserious.wordpress.com
flux.futurelab.org.uk
businessandgames.com/blog
Computer Game Trade Organisations
What Are Serious 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
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More Info at Wikipedia Entry For Simulation Game
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More Info at Wikipedia Entry For Advergaming
More Info at Wikipedia Entry For Game Based Learning
More Info at Wikipedia Entry For Exergaming
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More Info at The 'CALT Encyclopedia' Entry For Serious Games
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CELDA 2009
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Serious Gaming In Hyper Realistic Environments
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Round Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week of July 3
In this round-up, Gamasutra highlights some of the notable jobs posted in its industry-leading game jobs section this week, including positions from Blizzard, Microsoft Game Studios 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, ...
At-Risk Assists Educators in Identifying Student Depression
Training simulations developer Kognito has released At-Risk, a web-based serious game application designed to increase the willingness and skill of educational faculty to identify student mental distress and thoughts of suicide. At-Risk puts users in the role of a faculty member who has noticed signs of distress in six of his students. Users must analyze character profiles in order to narrow down the faculty member's suspicions to a group of three at-risk students. Through a ...
Mamba Games to Publish Making History Sequel in Europe
Mamba Games announced that it has acquired the European, Australian, and Eastern European publishing rights for Making History II: The War of the World, a sequel to Muzzy Lane Software's World War II-based serious game application. British economic historian Niall Ferguson lends his expertise in the field toward the development of the sequel. A significant portion of Making History II's gameplay will focus on the global economic climate during World War II. "Economic resources were ...
Round Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of June 26
In this round-up, Gamasutra highlights some of the notable jobs posted in its industry-leading game jobs section this week, including positions from Crystal Dynamics, Trion 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, cellphone ...
Learning Games Network Extends Student Video Contest Deadline
The Learning Games Network has extended the deadline for its student video contest. Students now have until July 31st to submit their entries for consideration in the Learning Games Network's judging process. The competition encourages students to submit their stories and ideas regarding how video games can change the face of modern education. Contest entries may fall into one of two categories -- "My 'Aha' Moment" or "My Dream Assignment." "My Aha Moment" entries must ...
Serious Games Podcasts & Breeze Casts
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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):
http://www.whla.co.uk/resources/Games.mp3
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