What more does serious games have to offer? Below you will find many examples of further resources in order to gain a better understanding of this remarkable and upcoming industry.

A better understanding of serious games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_game - A comprehensive understanding of serious games.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070502.wgtgames0502/BNStory/GlobeTQ/home - An excellent article by the Globe and Mail outlining serious games in the corporate environment.

http://www.corpu.com/newsletter_wi07/sect2.asp - More about what are serious games?

http://www.convergemag.com/story.php?catid=231&storyid=98168 – The importance of visual learning and how serious games can address that.

Summits and symposiums

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~jparker/seriousgames/summit/ - The Canadian symposium on serious games will be held in Montreal in November, 2007.

http://www.seriousgamessummit.com/ - The American equivalent was held in October. 

Current initiatives taken by the serious games industry

http://www.seriousgames.org/index2.html - Great website exploring the current initiatives and projects of the serious games industry.

http://seriousgamessource.com/ - Explores more of the current games that are being released.

http://www.seriousgamesinstitute.co.uk/ - Another excellent website that will give you up to date information about the industry and the new developments that are taking place.

Fun examples of flash based serious games that you can play right now

http://www.homelessgame.net/ - In thinking about games that have a social conscious component to them Homelessness: it's no game puts you in the perspective of somebody who is homeless.

http://www.turnitalloff.com/play.htm - A game in which you need to conserve office energy.

http://www.heavygames.com/stopwhaling/showgame.asp - Another environmental game in which you save whales.  Watch out for the whaling ship.

http://www.darfurisdying.com/  - A great game that helps build knowledge of the current conflict in Darfur.

http://www.persuasivegames.com/games/game.aspx?game=disaffected  - A really neat game about front line employees who have to deal with incompetent customers.

http://www.mcvideogame.com/index-eng.html - One of our favorites about the many factors of production that McDonald’s uses to provide their products to consumers.

Full length games that require payment

http://www.peacemakergame.com/ - Using current events to make peace between Israel and Palestine.

http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/game/  - A game where you use peaceful activism to resolve conflict.

http://www.ziplandinteractive.com/  - The first computer game of its kind that allows  children to deal with the issues surrounding divorce.

Be sure to look at the section entitled Check out latest blog posts, videos, and news about serious games for more multimedia and interesting facts about the industry.