About Serious Games

Serious games (SGs) or persuasive games are computer and video games used as persuasion technology or educational technology. They can be similar to educational games, but are often intended for an audience outside of primary or secondary education. Serious games can be of any genre and many of them can be considered a kind of edutainment.

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Thursday, 13 September 2007

LIVE from the Coventry University Serious Virtual Worlds Conference in Second Life







It's 'make your own seat' :)

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We got free T-Shirts !

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TruSim talked about their medical stuff.

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A good turnout.

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Forterra give a great live demo of a training world.

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Ron Edwards tells us that Ambient Performance will have an office in the Serious Games Institute.

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Kevin Corti From PixeLearning tells us about the serious games business and his virtual world technology.

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A good number of avatars attended the official opening of Coventry University Island in Second Life at the end of the day !

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At the very end of the day the conference got a tour of the new SGi building. This is me watching that from inside the virtual SGi building in SL :)

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