With IBM speaking about their recently released serious game: Innov8, the signal is there that this market is maturing – and fast. This symposium moves the community beyond the rhetoric to explore best practice in design and development across the Web, Virtual Worlds and Handhelds
IBM completes the unrivalled complement of experts contributing to the realization of a serious games best practice roadmap at this symposium. For the first time, detailed post-mortems are explored from across a variety of serious games for client organizations; including those in the health service, the ‘Big 4’ accounting firms, recruitment and school education. One of the key areas of focus is best practice across platforms: Web, virtual worlds and handheld devices. There is also a session dedicated to existing best practice in games development where games designers and developers share their expertise with the serious games audience.
Martine Parry, production director of event organizer Apply Group said: “We aim to produce a guide to best practice in serious games development on the basis of the findings at the symposium and we will make this available to the delegates for free and to the wider community when it has been refined further. There are only 2 weeks to go before the symposium so if you want to get involved then book one of the few remaining places at http://seriousgames.eventbrite.com .”
The other speakers include: Kevin Corti of PIXELearning; Jez Harris of Buzz developer Relentless Software; Brian Rodway of Affinity Studios; Dave Taylor, National Physical Lab; Graham Brown-Martin of Handheld Learning; Ron Edwards of Ambient Performance and the Chairman Donald Clark: a learning guru and formerly CEO of Epic.
Towards Best Practice in Designing & Developing Serious Games for Learning & Communications: Focus on Web, Virtual Worlds and Handheld Platforms runs all day on 31st January, 2008 at games association ELSPA premises in Soho, London. More information and booking is here: http://seriousgames.eventbrite.com