How Serious Are You About Serious Games?
January 20th, 2009
Serious Games (otherwise known as “SGs”) are meant to train or otherwise educate players, while being engaging. Serious Games Simulations are designed to have the same look and feel of a game, but include non-game events and/or processes. These types of games are specially targeted to government and business sectors for training purposes. While training segments vary for Serious Game applications, the military, corporate and educational arenas are all adopters of this technology/methodology. This rapidly growing industry originally began within the non-government sector and has continued to expand from there. And now the development of “Serious Virtual Worlds” to support training and learning is on fire. It’s more than a game…
Wikipedia Definition A serious game is a term used to refer to a software or hardware application developed with game technology and game design principles for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment. Serious games include games used for educational, persuasive, political, or health purposes.
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