Serious Games

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• Free Graph Paper with 95 Graphs Grids and Games

  
  Educational Games Research — Authority: 112
  There were times in college I needed a sheet of graph paper, and wished I could just print out a copy in Word and be on my way. I finally ended up making my own, and thus added to a wide collection of cut and paste resources. Such material is especially prevalent among teachers the world over, and Paul Edelman has ...
  4 days ago

• Animating the News: How Videogame Technologies Can Alter Our Perceptions of Real Life Events

  
  Educational Games Research — Authority: 112
  Before photography caught on in newspapers, artists rendered their conceptions of newsworthy events through woodcuts. These pictures served as a basis for shaping perceptions among consumers of the news. Now, a Chinese company called Next Media has pioneered videogame animations to offer its readers artists’ ...
  5 days ago

• Get relief from stress

  
  Positive Technology Journal — Authority: 126
  Stressed by technology? Let out your office anger and smash up your computer !
  5 days ago

• The metagame and its importance to MMOs

  
  Massively — Authority: 655
  What is the metagame? It can mean a lot of different things depending on context, but all of the meanings share the sense that the metagame is not the game itself, but something above and affecting the game as a whole. In a casual game of poker, the metagame could be as simple as one of the players having an ...
  5 days ago

• Fourth Annual I/ITSEC Serious Games Showcase & Challenge

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 133
  The Interservice/Industry Training Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) ( www.iitsec.org ) announced the winners of 2009 Serious Games Showcase & Challenge (SGS&C) competition. The awards were presented on December 3rd, 2009. In Orlando, Florida. The awards were given in three categories: the Best ...
  6 days ago

• What’s in a Serious Game?

  
  Virtual Speak — Authority: 115
  A recent report from GameIndustry stated that 83% of the United States population plays games; averaging 10.5 hours spent playing per week. Image courtesy of Game Industry More and more leading companies are adopting games for learning. Perhaps ‘game’ has a negative connotation for some. And I am ...
  1 week ago

• GameDays 2010 - Call for Papers

  
  beamtenherrschaft — Authority: 137
  Serious Games for Sports and Health GameDays 2010 March 25/26 2010, TU Darmstadt, Germany Call for papers We invite you to participate in the GameDays 2010. The GameDays, established in 2005 as annual "Science meets Business" event series, aim to provide an information and cooperation platform bringing together ...
  1 week ago

• Health care reform satire game “Death Panel” comes to the iPhone

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 158
  Casting a satirical view on the healthcare reform debate, the comic Death Panel game is debuting on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch devices today.Made by developer People Operating Technology, the game tests a user’s knowledge of healthcare reform. It takes its title from the much-discussed “death panels” that ...
  1 week ago

• Federation of American Scientists to teach kids biology via video games

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 158
  Bookmark this categoryAmerican students know their pop music, pro sports, and consumer electronics. But ask them about cell biology and you’ll get a blank stare. To combat that, the Federation of American Scientists has developed a video game, Immune Attack, that takes kids inside a human body.The game is aimed at ...
  1 week ago

• Stubbed Out

  
  virtualpolitik — Authority: 128
  Most public health games have a moralistic goody-two-shoes message, but not Smoking Kills , which encourages the player to join M.A.B.A.S. or the Mysterious Association of BadAsses Against Smokers and promptly begin directing to the player to aim his or her sniper fire against smoking stick-figure people. Killing ...
  1 week ago

• 3 – Serious Health Games for Stroke Rehabilitation

  
  The Acagamic Blog — Authority: 418
  Today, on the third of December, we tackle a serious (and very good) presentation from James Burke, a Ph.D. student from the University of Ulster, who researches games for serious purposes (so-called Serious Games) such as stroke rehabilitation. Games can be ideal motivators for patients to engage in upper limb ...
  2 weeks ago

• Digital Games for Physical, Cognitive and Behavioral Health

  
  Positive Technology Journal — Authority: 126
  Source: Reuters (From the press release) The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced more than $1.85 million in grants for research that will offer unprecedented insight into how digital games can improve players’ health behaviors and outcomes. With funding from RWJF’s Health Games Research ...
  2 weeks ago

• There Goes the Neighborhood

  
  virtualpolitik — Authority: 128
  In " Virtual human Army contractor will move to Playa Vista ," the Los Angeles Times reports that the Institute for Creative Technology will be relocating to new facilities. I interviewed several members of the game development teams that combine techinques and research methods from the military, the university, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Astronomical Science Learning Through WJU’s Selene Videogame

  
  Educational Games Research — Authority: 112
  I’ve had a pleasant e-mail conversation with Dr. Debbie Denise Reese over at Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia concerning the Selene Project, a multi-million dollar NASA and National Science Foundation funded learning project designed to teach students lunar science through a remarkable videogame. Dr. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Virtual CSI: North Carolina State Grant Lets Games Recreate Crime Scenes

  
  Educational Games Research — Authority: 112
  Interesting developments on a $1.4 million National Science Foundation grant to North Carolina State. Researchers plan to develop virtualized crime scenes with the help of 3D laser scans and the Unity gaming engine. The grant’s product will be called IC-CRIME, for Interdisciplinary, cyber-enabled crime ...
  2 weeks ago

• In Search of Educational iPhone Games

  
  Educational Games Research — Authority: 112
  Is there an app for that? How popular would overtly educational iPhone games be, in light of this competition: the top iPhone games downloaded the last week of November, 2009. Here they are, in order and price: 1. Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies, $9.99 2. Monopoly, $2.99 3. Tetris, $2.99 4. Bejeweled 2, $2.99 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Saving the world is serious fun all over again

  
  NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org blogs — Authority: 134
  Dr. Adrienne Burk convened an amazing conference last month on behalf of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, and I was lucky enough to get a chance to speak on one of the panels. The conference was called Witnessing the World: New Possibilities for Citizenship and Social Change, and while it ...
  3 weeks ago

• Writing for Video Game Genres Book Review

  
  Writers Cabal Blog — Authority: 99
  If you haven’t yet picked up the IGDA Writers SIG book Writing for Video Game Genres and want to know the full scoop, check out this recent book review from Slashdot.Here are some other editorial comments:A must-have for the bookshelf of any game writer, no matter what genre they’re working in. It was equally ...
  3 weeks ago

• Video Games & Wii

  
  video game reviews — Authority: 153
  Video game is an electronic game that interacts with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The electronic system in which the video game is played is called as platforms; personal computers and video game consoles are some of the examples. These range from large computers to small handheld ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

  
  virtualpolitik — Authority: 128
  Ren Reynolds of the Virtual Policy Network reports that the British government has recently released the Code of Everand game, which uses the design aesthetic of popular quest-oriented massive online games that are popular with K-12 students like Runescape , although developers adapted the MMO format for the ...
  3 weeks ago

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