Serious Games Network

Serious Games

• Games for serious purpose• Not only for entertainment• E.g.: education, defense, health care, scientific

exploration, emergency management, city planning, engineering, religion, politics, …

SEGAN Summary

• Framework: Life Long Learning• Start: 01.12.2011• Finish: 31.11.2014• Duration: 3 Y• Budget: ~ € 0.6 M• Partners: 13 = 10 Universities + 3 SME’s• seriousgamesnet.eu• www.facebook.com/groups/segan

SEGAN Partners• ISEP - Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto • VC - Virtual Campus Lda. - Portugal SME• UoL-FEUL - University of Ljubljana• UCLAN - University of Central Lancashire• KAHO - Katholieke Hogeschool St. Lieven• UNIZAR - Universidad de Zaragoza• TLU - Tallinn University• UTH - University of Thessaly• AET - Andamio Education and Technology - Valencia Spain SME• Accord - Accord International s.r.o. – Prague Czech SME• Corda - Cordia a.s. - Slovakia SME• CIT - Cork Institute of Technology • UCM - Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Baltasar)

SEGAN Goals

• Systematize the European approaches to Serious Games

• Creation of European Association of Game Based Learning

SEGAN Tasks

• Combine theory, research and practice• Coordinate communication between projects• Promote community of practice• Evaluate existing project and results• Exchange ideas and expertise

SEGAN Methods• Virtual communication• Face to face meetings• Publications• Conferences• Summer schools– 2012 – Zaragoza– 2013 … – Tallinn– 2014 – Cork

SEGAN Tallinn Summer School 2014

• Course in Tallinn Summer School• 14-19 July 2014 (1w)• In English• To teachers, designers, developers, writers, artists, …• summerschool.tlu.ee/design-of-serious-games

SEGAN Summer School Program

• Serious Games and Game Based Learning• Game design process and roles • Finding idea and defining goal for the serious game • Gameplay: challenges and actions • Game core mechanics: objects and conditions • Design of game world • Character design • Interactive storytelling • Game development in eAdventure • Game prototype presentation

More Information

summerschool.tlu.ee/design-of-serious-gameswww.facebook.com/groups/segan

seriousgamesnet.eu

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