Definition of "Serious Games"

A serious game is "a software or hardware application developed with game technology and game design principles for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment. The serious adjective is generally apended to refer to products used by industries like defense, education, scientific exploration, health care, emergency management, city planning, engineering, religion, and politics." (Wikipedia).

Videos

• Australian Television segment on Serious games
• Soldier Becomes Pilot Training on Video Games
• Games for Health conference
• "Magi" Game about diabetes
• At Risk Mental Distress Trainingg
• An Interview with Will Wright (Creator of "The Sims") on Game-Based Learning

Articles

ARTICLES

• Good Video Games and Good Learning
• Popular Science: Games Get Serious
• An article in ASTD’s Learning Circuits newsletter, and explores how to apply gaming principles to make learning initiatives more captivating and immersive.
• NYT article: Video Games in Lieu of Thesis
• Chronicle of Higher Ed: Georgia Tech Plays Video Games to Save Journalism
• Interview with Clark Aldrich - Simulation & Serious Game Expert
• Research on the Value of Simulated Conversations
• Best Practices For Using Games & Simulations In The Classroom: Guides for K-12 Educators
  Playing on their Own
• "World of Warcraft: A Pandemic Lab" TIME Online
• 5 Teaching Tips for Professors—From Video Games [Chronicle of Higher Education]
• SimCity Baghdad [Atlantic Monthly]

Games Examples

GAME EXAMPLES

• Debt Ski
• Killer Flu
• Budget Hero
• Frog Guts: Dissection Exercise
• The Evil Landlady: A Training Game for International Students in Canada
• Activism
• Campaign Rush
• First aid for an accident
• Saving Captain Phillips
• "Iced" Deportation game
• 1066: Experience the Norman Conquest
• Military Simulation
• Londoner: The Educational Game of Living in 17th Century London
• At Risk Mental Health Training Demo
• Humana Games for Health
• Ars-Regendi: Political Simulation
• Democracy 2
• Simcountry: Political Simulation
• Mindhabits
• Investments (modelling financial transactions)
• Castaway: A Survival Simulation
• Learning Grid: Portal for Serious Games
• British Army Games 1
• British Army Games 2
• British Army Games 3
• Arabian Lords Strategy Game
• Captain Underpaints (Build Your Own Graphic Story)
• Gamestar Mechanic
• Finding Zoe: A Life Choices Game
• Real Lifes: Educational Simulation game
• INNOV8 BPM simulation game
• Robocode
• Kudos 2
• Democracy 2