An article was posted today(10/18) at The Guardian Unlimited that discusses the use of gaming technology to train adults for specific real life scenarios. In the article he speaks with several developers who make these "games". Throughout the article, the word "serious games" appears to describe the trend of using videogame engines to create something too fun to be called a "simulator" but too grown up to be called a video game. Video game technology has been around a while now, and its evolved to the point where it is difficult not to see the benefit of interactive media in a growing number of applications outside of 'teh halo3z'.
Be sure to check the list of "serious games" at the bottom of the Guardian article. Several of them are accesible to the public and free. Seriously.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Serious Games. Seriously.
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You can buy that "America's Army" game. Or, you can get a copy if you sign up for the army, but it sucks, as far as army type games go.
I have often thought of a simulator to teach people how to skydive, scuba dive, work in space, etc. so this is really cool to see people outside of games taking a bit of notice.
you can sim skydiving in GTA:san andreas. You can drive a sub in the free sub game at the link, and you can work in space in ummm metroid prime 3. And Asteroids.
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