Helping you make games for purposes beyond entertainment
Helping you make games for purposes beyond entertainment
The following frequently asked questions can help you with the very basics and make you more prepared to build great games for impact.
These articles offer some insightful reading about games for impact...
Keep up on news, events, and other useful articles via these sites.
The following follows and #hashtags on Twitter are great ways to keep up on serious games announcements, thought leaders, and ideas. To see a larger compiled Twitter list visit here.
Some specialize in serious games, some are more entertainment oriented, and some are hybrids building both entertainment, and non-entertainment games. With IGDA Chapters you may have to dive into the chapter's specific site to find localized list of developers.
Aside from other resources listed on this page, the following sites offer jumping off points to read and learn more about game development in general, and serious games in particular. They are not always the best places to start, but they can be invaluable along the way.
There are a variety of interesting groups and organizations active in the serious games space. Visit these groups to learn more what each one is doing, and how they might be helpful to your efforts.
It is hard to catalog every game made. In many cases databases of serious games tend to include many impossible to find, and just plain awful games. There is no perfect list, and no perfect top 20 list of games. That said, these databases are great ways to research games in general, and see prior art relevant to serious games as well.
Search these locations, and visit the Web sites of known game development studios and interview them. Some specialize in serious games, some are more entertainment oriented, and some are hybrids building both entertainment, and non-entertainment games.
These resources can best help you if you're interested in building games for purposes beyond entertainment.
These consortiums and specialized university programs will provide you a good starting off point for exploring serious games relelvant, research, development, scholarship, student activity in the higher-education world.
These resources can best help you if you're interested in building games for purposes beyond entertainment.
These talks collectively will give you an enhanced understanding about why games have roles beyond entertainment and some insight into making them.
The journals listed below are useful first places to look for serious games research. However, many other works about serious games are published in journals often more related to the underlying topical field the game addresses.