Lifting with Scissors is a fun, challenging game that abstractly teaches users various safe protocols and features of the scissor lift, without outright showing as a traditional educational game. Players aim and throw a series of balls from the basket of the scissor lift into various containers scattered around a level. While attempting to throw…
Organizations increasingly transfer cyber security knowledge to their staff in the form of publications and instructor-led training. However, knowledge transfer does not guarantee skill development. In order to let the trainees become skilled at recognizing threats, and being fully aware of the direct connection between their daily actions and cyber security breaches, Info-Sentinel lets them…
Hungry Birds is a fast-paced game where the player is a bird flying through a forest and has to eat as many moths as possible in 60 seconds. Flight path is automated, players focus on touching moths resting on trees. Halfway through the game, the trees turn dark (pollution) and suddenly it is easier to…
Reposted with permission from Team Orlando. By Dolly Rairigh Glass With the 2006 inaugural behind them, the Serious Games Showcase & Challenge IPT committee began to pinpoint the challenges they recognized in that first year and address them for the 2007 Challenge. The year was focused on removing restrictions that seemed to be hampering more…
Reposted with permission from Team Orlando. By Dolly Rairigh Glass Two successful Serious Games Showcase & Challenge events in 2006 and 2007 led to more discovery and understanding about what was really going to make this event sustain itself. In preparation for the 2008 SGS&C, continued refinements were made to ensure the Challenge’s longevity. In the…
Reposted with permission from Team Orlando. By Dolly Rairigh Glass With three years behind them, the Serious Games Showcase & Challenge IPT didn’t have any major changes to implement for 2009, and instead focused on increasing both the number of student entries and international entries. “More and more the word continued to spread to potential…
Reposted with permission from Team Orlando. By Dolly Rairigh Glass Heading into the year 2010, the Serious Games & Showcase Challenge IPT committee began to realize that the growth in the number of games and the quality of games they had planned for was definitely becoming more evident. Although they didn’t see a big increase…
Serious Games Showcase & Challenge would like to congratulate our 2015 award winners: • Best Business Game – Project Desal, Monkeystack, SimTecT winner • Best Government Game – MUM-T Strikeforce, U.S. Army PdM – Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems • Best Student Game – Healthx, University of Utah • Best Mobile Serious Game – Project Desal,…
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By Dolly Rairigh GlassReprinted with permission from Team Orlando About three and a half years ago, at the conclusion of the 2012 Serious Games Showcase & Challenge (SGS&C), the SGS&C integrated product team (IPT) leads initiated a conversation with Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) and proposed a partnership — one that would expand the makeup…
