This latest Serious Games Source feature covers a keynote by alternate reality game creator Jane McGonigal presented during the recent 2007 Serious Games Summit, during which she stated “I design games from the future,” and offered insight into the creation of Halo 2 ARG ilovebees.
In the march up to the Serious Games Shootout panel to take place in March during the Serious Games Summit in San Francisco, writer Richard Carey presents a comparative analysis of several prominent engines currently used for developing serious games, as well as quotes from the companies behind the technologies.
In this latest Playing with Fire feature, Powerful Robot Games' Gonzalo Frasca offers his unique insight into the perception of conflict in games, as well as in other media, and notes how looking at events through the eyes of the opposition could lead to better understanding.
In this latest Serious Games Source feature, Erin Hoffman discusses the current state of exergaming, and examines Dr. Ernie Medina's XRtainment Zone, which offers fun and healthy alternatives to traditional exercise regimes for both children and adults alike.
Electronic Arts and BP Alternative Energy have partnered to include climate change issues in the upcoming SimCity Societies, charting the impact of cost-effective but high emissions solutions versus more expensive "green" options, and information about global warming playing a role in the city-building simulator.
The University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, CADE and the Chicago Department of Public Health have developed a free game designed to educate organizations in a simulation of emergency point-of-dispensing (POD), to help coordinate appropriate staff members in emergency response scenarios.
HopeLab, a nonprofit group who previously designed the Re-Mission game for children with cancer, have announced the launch of Ruckus Nation, an online idea competition that challenges participants to create a game concept or technology-focused product idea that will increase physical activity in kids.
