Elaine M. Raybourn, Ph.D. is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff in Cognitive Science at Sandia National Laboratories and has designed computer games for cultural dynamics. A member of the Serious Games Showcase & Challenge IPT since 2010, Elaine’s greatest passion is engendering intercultural communication and multicultural understanding for all, through the design of…

Eagle Eye is a fielded US Army training game that leverages an expansive and immersive 3D urban environment. This application provides the Army’s latest reconnaissance and security tactics to the RQ-7B Shadow Platform. The game puts the player in control of an Unmanned Aircraft supporting a Brigade Combat Team using their critical decision making skills….

In the beginning of the game, players learn to identify shapes based on their properties. Next, logic-based puzzles are introduced. To solve the puzzles, players must use the properties of given shapes, which are placed in complex figures of overlapping shapes, to draw conclusions about other shapes in the figure. As the game progresses, players…

Czechoslovakia 38-89 presented by Ministry of Culture of Czech Republic and Charles University in Prague is a complex single-player dialog-based adventure game with a strong narrative, including interactive comics and authentic audiovisual materials. It presents key events from Czechoslovakia’s contemporary history and enables students to “experience” these events from different perspectives. It aims to develop…

Cyber Heist is an intense, two-player co-op experience unlike any other. Team up with a friend to take on the futuristic Department of Education as either an eye-in-the-sky hacker or a stealthy, cautious thief. Work together with your partner to plan your route through each level; trap mechanical drones; disable alarms; and gather passwords. Most…

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…