A Serious range (of English serious, “serious” and of range, “play”) is an computer application which combines a serious intention, of type teaching, informative, communication, marketing, ideological or of drive with ludic springs resulting from the Video game or data-processing Simulation. The vocation of Serious Game is thus to make attractive serious dimension by a form, an interaction, rules and possibly of the ludic objectives.
Often the serious ranges are diffused in the form of Gratuiciels. That is explained inter alia by the fact why the strategy of diffusion of these serious ranges is based on the viral Marketing. Often also, the budgets allocated with the realization of the serious ranges are relatively low. The quality of the serious ranges thus approaches often that of the plays free rather than of the commercial plays with large budget.
Serious Games can in theory being used in all the fields. For example, defense America' S Army, health, the labor market (Technocity), ecology (Ecoville), the policy (September the 12th), the humanitarian (Food Forces, Darfur Is Dying), publicity, the religion, Art…
The academics Julian Alvarez and Olivier Rampnoux propose to classify Serious Game in 5 main categories: Engaged Advergaming, Edutainment, Edumarket range, Plays, and Plays of drive and simulation.
Classification of the serious ranges
Advergaming
These serious ranges is intended mainly for publicity.See also: Advergame
Edutainment
These serious ranges has an educational vocation.See also: Software ludo-educational
Edumarket range
The Neologism " Edumarket game" was created in 2006 by the academics Julian Alvarez and Olivier Rampnoux, the creators of a serious range named Technocity . Edumarket range comes from English edu for “education”, from market “gone” and from range , “play” and could result in " play whose intention is to educate on a type of marché". Edumarket ranges thus fit in the register of the tools dedicated to the communication strategy while being pressed on the springs of the video game, but by also integrating an educational aspect.Edumarket ranges make it possible to approach the register of the social stakes in particular. Such as for example, the play Food Forces which was launched by the United Nations during 2005, in free access on the Web, with localizations by country (Italy, France, Poland, China, Japan,…) and whose vocation is to sensitize children with the humane missions which the United Nations in their daily combat against the famine carry out.
Committed plays
The objective of this category of serious range is to divert is:- traditional rules of the Video games. For example by depriving the player of the possibility of being able to gain one day (September the 12th), or while asking him to lose to gain (AntiWar range)…
- graphics of known titles: for example Anne-Marie Schleiner, Brody Condon and Joan Leandre propose to the players to affix graphic patches of pacifist propaganda (Velvet-Strike) within the play of shooting to the first nobody (FPS) " Counter Strike".
- at the same time rules and graphics: Called Mods (abbreviation of " Modifications"), these patches modifies in-depth known plays. Such as for example the MOD " Escape from Woomera" who transforms the FPS " Half Life" in a refugee camp really located in Australia, to denounce the existence of this camp
The diverted plays have often the role to denounce in a direct way of the problems of a political nature or geopolitical. Gonzalo Frasca, researcher in Center for Computer Research Range of the university of Technology of the information (IT) of Copenhagen, Denmark, is an expert recognized in this field. One of its achievements, September the 12th, for example, denounces the use of violence to try to dam up terrorism.
See also: MOD (video game)
Plays of drive and simulation
These serious ranges has the role is:- to allow the user to involve itself to carry out a task or an operation given
- to study a phenomenon taking as a starting point the reality which was reproduced in a virtual environment.
See also: Play of simulation
Certain plays are created by soldiers, at ends of recruitment, drive…
See also: military Serious range
Some examples
- has Force More Powerful , resolution of conflicts in a peaceful way; paying (20 $US) (official site)
- INSTINCT , a simulator for the French Army ()
- IPCA , simulator of entainement tactical of the forces ()
- America' S Army , a play of the American army
- Kuma War , a play of the American army
- Food Forces (official site)
- Technocity (official site)
- Love Treez Jeu ecological based on the afforestation and the repeuplage of an exotic island (official site)
See too
External bonds
- Plays-Sérieux.fr the blog of the CERIMES on the serious plays
- Play Ecoville on the official site of the ADEME)
- European Meeting of the actors of the serious range
- Blog on the serious gaming
- Article on the play used in e-learning (e-learning Blog)
- Article on the development of trades by the video game
- Serious Ranges Initiative
- Ranges for Exchange (G4C)
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