Along with the technologies, there has been a massive boom in the world of video games for purposes other than entertainment, often termed serious games. The fundamental characteristic of games is they are fun to play.
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Corona Bee Game is an evidence-based 'serious' game that challenges vaccine myths and misconceptions. To support these public health objectives Corona Bee Game has been translated from English into 5 Indian languages and it is free to play without any registration or downloading.
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How can water managers and mediators mitigate conflict over transboundary water resources regardless of the geographic scale? We believe the answer is social learning through serious gaming. While the stated goal of all games is educating about sustainable management of water, each game forces the participants to think about water in many different forms, ranging from the differences in valuing surface water and groundwater, the packaging of water in the form of goods, the benefits from water than can be traded, and the apparent "Nexus" of water with food, energy, money, and the environment.
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The Manitoba Construction Sector Council is developing a new game-based learning tool called TradeUp to introduce young people to most of the construction trades required to build a new home.
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The hapū of Tangoio Marae have a serious decision to make about this place that is so central to their community, and one of their decision-making tools is unorthodox: a board game. Called Marae-opoly, the Māori community designed the game in partnership with researchers from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research with the explicit goal of helping the hapū decide how to manage the flood risk to their marae.
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Learning what it takes to be a successful real estate investor may seem like a lot and it may even seem like it could be a little boring. Terrica Lynn Smith created a Monopoly-like game that not only teaches you to buy property but also teaches you how to build developments and ultimately get the keys to the city.
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In our context, a wargame is above all a catalyst artifact to generate realistic managerial situations through a system of rules, scenarios and material. Wargames represent historical or fictional environments where several teams are opposed, often asymmetrically.
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In this fun and engaging online game, students review, apply, and practice bystander skills, coping skills, empathy for others, and appropriate usage of social media use.
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It's an area the Czech studio Charles Games actively pursues - both in their debut "Attentat 1942," an exploration of one family's history following Heydrich's assassination through the lens of the arrest mentioned above, and in their upcoming follow-up, "Svoboda 1945," a game about a small town in the Czech-German borderlands that saw a tremendous rise in violence during the expulsion of ethnic-Germans from Czechoslovakia.
Read MoreEmpirical literature lacks evidence regarding teen education about prescription opioid safety through serious games and lacks conceptual models and frameworks to guide the process of game development for this purpose.
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A popular computer game that looks at war through the eyes of civilians will be added to the optional school reading list by the education ministry, the prime minister has announced.
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The growth rate for Game-based Learning across the planet is quite high at 27.1% and revenues will more than quadruple to $28.8 billion by 2025, according to a new market report by Metaari called "The Worldwide 2020-2025 Game-based Learning Market." The revenues are heavily concentrated in North America and the Asia Pacific throughout the forecast period.
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