Just Fun & Games? A friend sent me this link to…

Just Fun & Games?



A friend sent me this link today. Serious games are a growing part of the video game industry, definitely something worth looking at.

The following is their purpose statement:

The goal of this site is to catalog the growing number of video and

computer

games whose primary purpose is something other than to entertain. These

are

also known as “serious games.”

“Game” (i.e. video and computer) has

become a language –i.e. a medium of expression — in which almost any idea

can

be, and is being, expressed. It is our intention to help document this

growing

phenomenon and list, so that:

People who want to locate Social

Impact Games

can find them, and

People who want to create Social Impact

Games can see

what others have done.

Published by Kelly Boudreau

Associate Professor of Interactive Media Theory & Design at Harrisburg University. I research Digital Games, Play, Sociality, Avatars, Toxicity, and Social Norms & Boundary Keeping. Thoughts and ramblings on this site are my own as I grapple with all the things professional and personal and everything in between.

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