Serious games

Serious game approach to education gained a tremendous popularity nowadays, as it teaches people on their own example - not in theory. Serious games closely connect the academic education and real-life training through combination of the serious simulation and entertaining element, thus, creating a new tier of edutainment.

Emergency Evacuation Simulator

Gaming industry which gave the first push to serious game sector still has a great influence over its development. And that's no wonder, as majority of innovative 3D technologies and algorithms were initially applied and polished by game developers. Attractive concepts and high level of personal involvement inspired by glorious role-playing games have now brought serious games to a mass popularity. Interactive 3D simulations that were originally focused on military and government due to their high cost, with the rapid development of computer hardware become increasingly popular among the civilian organizations.

Purpose: Serious games meet the demand for fast and high-quality training among the professionals who care about their practical skills and need to improve their knowledge every day. Serious games are interactive simulators that are specially designed for fun, yet highly effective, regular brain exercises in virtual environment that recreates real-world conditions with a stunning level of realism. Personal involvement and personal experience are the main principles of serious game education, which made the serious games one of the most effective learning tools. Things are memorized faster and without considerable effort, skills are remembered long, and the decision-making process takes seconds when they are practiced through the interactive simulation.

Areas of use: Unlike entertaining game content, serious games are predominantly targeted at adult audience, as they are distinguished by high realism and real-life scenarios - not by exciting fictional plot. They can be used by any organization that requires regular training of its employees or students, yet such training is costly and/or difficult to perform in real-life conditions. Serious games find their application in a wide variety of domains тАУ medicine, aviation, security & protection, rescue service, military, manufacturing, economics, sports (racing, diving, rowing, yachting, etc.), engineering, construction, etc.

Examples of possible scenarios for serious games:

• Virtual surgery
• Bridge construction
• Deep diving
• Traffic supervising and flying control
• Piloting the plane
• Artwork restoration
• Landing operations
• Rescue training
• Learning botany, zoology, paleontology, archeology, geology, geodesy, seismology, meteorology, economics, marketing communication and other sciences.

Advantages:

• Highly realistic environment (close to real-life conditions)
• Rich human experience
• Continuous education
• No risk
• High reusability

Features:

• Ability to affect the simulation model
• Real-time training
• Multiuser environment with a possibility to organize team cooperation through the server part
• Integration with special hardware (to increase the level of realism)
• Possibility to model different simulation scenarios based on the administrator settings
• Evaluation module which collects the simulation statistics and performs the comparison of different data at the end of simulation

Samples by Program-Ace:

Emergency Evacuation Simulator

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