Serious Games

Serious Games Round-Up

January 12, 2009

While I was taking a bit of time off for the holidays, the gaming world did not sleep. Here are a number of highlights from the last month, including some new games. Gaming Trends & Research Advertising Pawn offers up the following slide show on gaming trends (click through if you don’t see it). It’s [...]

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5 Games Against Poverty and Hunger

October 15, 2008

The following five free serious games are selected from among the various serious games I have written about here before on Mission to Learn. I offer them up as part of Blog Action Day, which this year is focused on the issue of poverty. As I’ve written about in Playing for Change, I am increasingly [...]

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Heifer to Launch Serious Game

October 8, 2008

Heifer Village Nepal Start Sceen In an article I wrote recently for WE magazine, Play for Change, I used one of my favorite nonprofits, Heifer International, to help illustrate how serious games might create a higher level of engagement with an organization than some of the more typical communication practices. Ironically, Heifer must have been [...]

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British Red Cross Launches Alternate Reality Game

September 29, 2008

The British Red Cross has launched Traces of Hope, an online alternate reality game (ARG) situated in the midst of the Uganda civil war. The game, according to the Red Cross press release, “combines storytelling, detective work, technology and treasure-hunt style gameplay in a compelling 21st century narrative, as players seek to reunite Joseph with [...]

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New Serious Games – Serious Games News

September 10, 2008

A couple of new serious games popped on my radar screen today. The first, Soba, is a massively multi-player game (MMG) focused on neighborhoods in New York City.  It was developed by Tiltfactor, a maker of games for social change based at Dartmouth College, and will launch officially on Saturday, September 13 at the Conflux [...]

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