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The same people who brought us interactive movie theater entertainment have installed several advergaming arcades in the MSNBC.com digital cafe at Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan. The two games are NewsBlaster and NewsBreaker. The arcades are free and hooked up to the web. Love the old-school look and the homage, perhaps unintended, to Tapper, the first arcade to feature a brand (more in this post on history of in-game advertising).
by: Gary Hayes
The slides below are from a presentation I did last week at the Monash Law Chambers as part of a four speaker mix on Law and Regulation of Virtual Worlds. The embed below has just been elevated as a slideshare featured presentation - so goes to show what a catchy title will do. I co-presented with Dan Hunter, New York Law School, Melbourne University Law, Melissa deZwart, Senior Lecturer, Monash Law and David Lindsay, Senior Lecturer, Monash Law.
by: Rick van der Wal
I came across an excellent post by Jonas Karlsson cleverly titled “I’m in ur browser, chatting in 3D” (A pun on the internet-famous LOLcats).
Serious Games: This Is The Future For Education. Period!
I had already covered HBR article Leadership’s Online Labs on my previous post, dated May 03, 2008 - Harvard Business Review Article: Serious Gamers Hone Leadership Skills.
Continue reading "Serious Games Making Their Way Into Corporations" »
The New Serious Games Online Shop
Via: Serious Games Networking Portal - New Serious Games Online Shop
Buyseriousgames.com is a brand new online shop dedicated to Serious Games applications, platforms and toolsets, with a straight forward value proposition: becoming the Definitive Serious Games Reseller.
Continue reading "Buyseriousgames.com Making Life Easier for Developers and Buyers" »
by: Rick van der Wal
MTV and virtual worlds have a ‘thing going on’. Ever since 2006 their name frequently pops up in the media in connection to persistent online worlds.
by: Eliane Alhadeff
Sharing ideas, passions and beliefs that may help shape our future
Continue reading "Serious Gaming with the Power of Ideas and Networking" »
Associating a brand with the fun of gaming lifts brand metrics
Via: Viral Blog - CP+B Launches Rooftop Racer For Coke Zero
Advergames are starting to create new levels of excitement and interactivity that dynamically enrich consumer-brand experiences.
Continue reading "Viral Games Get Serious Enriching Brand Experiences" »
December 1-4, 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA
The Third Annual I/ITSEC Serious Games Showcase & Challenge
Call for Serious Games Entries
Following my previous post Serious Games Showcase & Challenge 2008, developers are now invited to submit their original Serious Game to the Third Annual I/ITSEC Serious Games Showcase & Challenge.
Continue reading "Serious Games Showcase & Challenge 2008 - Call For Entries" »
by: Rick van der Wal
While interoperability of virtual worlds, social networks and the 2D web in general continues to improve, the confusion and clutter surrounding these various worlds with different identities increases. Many virtual worlds and networks still have their own unique features behind mandatory sign up processes, each world requiring a new identity (avatar).
Continue reading "Identity Management for Virtual Worlds through Windows Live ID?" »
by: Rick van der Wal
Following Google’s’ Lively, it is now the Electric Sheep Company’s (ESC) turn to reveal their browser-based virtual world: WebFlock. WebFlock is completely Flash Based unlike Lively, and their business model is very different as well.
Chevy Cobalt Labs from General Motors looks pretty cool and strikes me as rather well executed. The experience takes you from modding your very own virtual Chevy Cobalt to racing it against other players. If that's your thing, then all the better but otherwise, there are still a few things that GM did well with this game so read on.
Serious Games bringing transformational learning to business
Via: Enspire Learning - Fluent in Finance™: Live Edition
Enspire Learning announced the release of a new learning experience: Fluent in Finance™: Live Edition, which aims to provide a better way for non-financial managers to learn finance.
Continue reading "Serious Games To Become Financially Literate" »
Enhancing large-scale, real-world games
With games like Sharkrunners that cross media and create an artful mix of real and virtual worlds, area/code delights in challenging gamers' expectations
Big Games are large-scale, real-world games. A Big Game might involve transforming an entire city into the world's largest board game, or hundreds of players scouring the streets looking for invisible treasure, or a TV show reaching out to interact with real-time audiences nationwide.
Continue reading "Serious Games Become Tangible With area/code Big Games" »
by: Rick van der Wal
Take two on Googles virtual world Lively. I had to try again at home, hoping this time the customization functions would not fail me. Using Vista and Firefox 3 I expected even more problems but apart from having the installer crash once this time I did get to experience the full ‘Livelyness’ of the application.
The world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game
Via: Open The Future - Superstruct: Play the Game, Invent the Future
Via: The Institute For The Future
This fall, the Institute for the Future invites you to play Superstruct, the world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game.
Continue reading "MMFG SUPERSTRUCT: A Future-Making Serious Game" »
Learnings from Corporate and Amateur Efforts in Second Life
Via: One To One Interactive
"Corporate vs. Amateur Efforts in Second Life"
Jeffrey Bardzell, Ph.D., Shaowen Bardzell, Ph.D., and Tyler Pace
OTOinsights, the research arm of One to One Interactive, has released its first t=zero report, entitled ‘Serious Games for Marketing,’ available for free download . You can download the full report free of charge here.
Continue reading "Serious Games Report On Early Footholds in VW Spaces" »
NY Times: "The architectural designer Eric Clough embedded 18 clues in the Fifth Avenue apartment of the Klinsky- Sherry family, leading them on a scavenger hunt through the rooms of their home."
-- via Game Tycoon
Big news today, if you haven't heard already: Google released a 3D chat app called Lively. It's the same thing that was being tested at a university in Arizona last winter, and probably the same thing that was rumored about in January 2007 and anticipated as early as 2006.
Chris from One-to-One Interactive writes in with a new report that compares corporate professionally-done (and often committee-approved) builds in Second Life with player-made stuff. Even if you think Second Life is sooo 2007 but are interested in interaction design in general, take a look. Among other findings, there's this gem about how the biggest sim is not always the most popular, and for the reasons that are familiar to architects and urban planners but not necessarily to software designers [emphasis mine]:
Continue reading "Tips for Corporate Builds in Second Life" »
Breaking new ground for Serious Gaming
BreakAway, Ltd launched yesterday their New Blog at http://breakawayltd.blogspot.com/.
Continue reading "BreakAway New Blog Fosters Serious Games Knowledge Sharing" »
This is a video of a Supernova 2008 panel featuring Doug Thomas (USC), Raph Koster and Dave Elfving (Apple). It's a good panel themed around the idea that "Massively multiplayer online games offer glimpses of how social interactions and work will develop in the Network Age. What can they teach us? How can businesses and online communities leverage insights from virtual worlds to develop more effective systems and practices?" If you don't have the time to watch the video (apple quicktime required, no pun intended of course), you can find a summary on the Uptake blog. Embedded version coming when I can find it.
Good article today on CNET called "29 potential video game monetization methods". Of course, there's nothing here amazingly new and never heard before but if you're the type who likes lists, this is as good as they come. As it happens, some of these models are older whereas some are just picking up speed.
Habbo (formerly Habbo Hotel):
by: Matt Rhodes
I often get asked to explain why SecondLife (SL) is more than just a geek and sex fest. Millions of people have visited this virtual world only to give up and abandon their avatar on day one (over 10 million according to Wikipedia). I don’t blame them. SecondLife isn’t ready for the mainstream. And nor is it SecondLife per-se that’s important.
Continue reading "Proving the Potential of Virtual Worlds" »
Skills Shortage could slow Serious Games market expansion
Sources: The Evil Number 27’s occasional bivouac - Serious (Games) Skills Shortages
Educational Games Research - Survey: Students Want Educational Games
In his Blog, Kevin Corti has recently made a reference to a good article on the BBC site about the UK game industries skills needs.
Continue reading "Building Serious Games Development Capability At Large " »
