Welcome to the ETEC 522 Serious Games Wiki!
What is a "serious game?" Well, here's Wikipedia's definition:
A serious game is a software application developed with game technology and game design principles for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment.
An example would be America's Army, a game built, some might say, to train future soldiers. Another would be the Carmen SanDiego series of educational CD-ROMs. And yet another would be PeaceMaker: Global Conflicts, a screenshot of which is shown below. In other cases, standard games are used in non-standard ways - such as Civilization III being used to teach the key concepts of history. Here's a question for you: how would you define serious games?
How to work (play?) through this module
This wiki is an aide to learning and exporing the world of serious games. We'll present some information, ask questions, and expect input and discussion from you. All of us are smarter than any of us: please share your thoughts!
Suggested sequence
Start by checking the background information pages below. Then browse through some of the links in the serious games feed grazer in the sidebar. And finally, add some of your thoughts on the discussion topic pages (or anywhere on this wiki). Of course, if you'd like to dive right in wherever you want, you're perfectly welcome to!
Serious games background information to review
Serious games in the news
Discussion topics on serious games
Extra resources on serious games
Comments (3)
Julie said
at 8:58 pm on Nov 6, 2007
I added some html (on this page)so your links would open in a new window. I hate losing an original document when linking to other sites.
To do this:
click on source
use the anchor tag
<a href="http://www.url.com" target="_blank"> some text that is the link </a>
John Koetsier said
at 4:47 pm on Nov 7, 2007
Interesting! I hate the page deciding for me whether it's going to open a new window or not ... I use tabs, an virtually always open up new windows in tabs.
This saves state on the original page, and also does not clutter up my desktop.
julie said
at 11:27 am on Nov 9, 2007
I am a big tab user too. I use Firefox. Firefox will automatically open a new page in a new tab and keep the original.
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