Serious Games

Serious games researches games and simulations for non-entertainment domains - education, training, health, public policy, defense, and strategic communication. Serious games work includes:

 

Serious Games work includes:

 

• Health, public policy,

• Strategic communication, defense,

• Training and education,

• Human performance engineering, and

• Game evaluation.

 

Serious game development is a rather new phenomenon in the game world and has the potential to eclipse the entertainment world in size over time if we perform the proper research as we build this very important area. Serious games means we are building games that use entertainment principles, creativity, and technology to carry out a governmental or corporate objective.

 

As we step towards such serious game developments, we need to develop principles, processes and procedures for such deployments . that is usually called human performance engineering. If we have training and education objectives for our serious game, then we need to understand how to utilize the creativity of the entertainment world with appropriate human performance engineering principles. It is for that reason alone that the first serious games should, in fact must, be constructed in carefully controlled university environments.