Games are good for more than just pure entertainment

Serious Games: Games whose primary goal is beyond entertainment

Training – designed to put a person in a specific scenario and allow him or her to gain comfort or mastery

Health Games – Train people to perform health related tasks or to be healthier

Social Commentary Games – Game as a means to get a point across

• Advergames – Games created for the primary purpose of advertisement

Educational Games – training games usually to target school age children in subject specific content

Social Awareness Games – put players in incredibly uncomfortable situations to increase awareness

To educate To persuade To present a personal belief To make a difference in the world To avoid consumerism

Create a concept for a serious game based on a real life serious newsworthy event (911, Katrina, etc.) that would not normally be a subject for the purposes of educating, training, making a social statement, or increasing awareness• Research the event• Find the core – the one thing the game is

about, the reason it is being made• Create the deliverable