Yearly Archives: 2015

2 crowdfunded Serious Games projects you want to know about

GloveOne Have you ever experienced Virtual Reality? Were you amazed about watching and listening to things imagined by others? What if touching virtual things were also possible? From playing the piano without a piano to the recovery of feelings you thought lost. If this possibility captivates you take a look to GloveOne by Neurodigital Technologies. You can support them on Kickstarter until July 9th or share the good ... Read More »

Medmyst: Serious Games To Contain Disease Outbreaks

Fascinating and terrifying at the same time, disease outbreaks have always been an object of mankind’s morbid curiosity, for their ability of triggering a deep sense of panic in the society –as it happened with the cases of ebola, avian influenza or the mad cow disease, to name a few. Medmyst is a serious game series of a total of ... Read More »

Do Androids Dream of…Serious Games?

Imagine a world where household robots are a reality. While they may not be human-like, or dream of electric sheep like in Philip K. Dick’s novel, robotics is increasingly becoming a tangible reality outside of the universities’ research facilities, and serious games play a big part in this. Yes, you read right. Serious games have scientific uses much further than ... Read More »

II Spanish Health Games Congress is almost here!

Spanish are usually praised as talented and creative workers, full of new ideas and unique approaches. An emergent industry like Serious Games is already benefiting of all this. Entrepreneurs from all over Spain, and not only from the big cities, are shaking up what we thought we could do with video games. Would you like to know how the future will be? From June 16th ... Read More »

Are we educating our kids just to win at Trivial?

There is nothing new about the fact that kids are fed up with traditional school. We were, too, and now that we are grown-ups, we know that: We probably won’t use –or remember- at least 50% of what we study The “useful” 50% remaining has long been forgotten –at least 90% of it- and we only remember what we loved ... Read More »

What if shooter games could save lives?

As you might have noticed, this website is about Serious Games. What could be more serious than being able to save a life? However, statistics show that more than 70% of the population has not received first aid training. A perfect example of the generalized first-aid ignorance is the recurrent question: “Quick! Is there a doctor in here?!” that we ... Read More »

Why you MUST play “The Stanley Parable”

The Stanley Parable is one of the most innovative games of the last years. It challenges your mind, contradicting everything you have previously known or heard about video games, making you play with the rules, and not by them. Do you have the opportunity of making real choices at games or at life? Never mind. To play or not to ... Read More »

¿Cómo integrar las TIC en la enseñanza?: Arranca iTIC2015

Arrancan en Madrid las VII jornadas sobre integración de las TIC en la Educación, iTIC15. Desde el lunes 27 de abril hasta el miércoles 29, de 16:15 a 20:30 en el instituto Las Acacias, podrás asistir a un extenso programa de conferencias que se centrarán en casos reales, puestos en práctica en la Comunidad de Madrid. Si quieres asistir, aún puedes ... Read More »

Game Dev Story or How is it like to Develop your own Video Games

If you ever wanted to know how a video game studio works, this is your perfect chance! Face the challenges, ups and downs of the video games industry from the 1980’s until today. Develop the coolest games choosing from a wide variety of possibilities. Will you play safe developing a Fantasy RPG? Or would you try to make a difference ... Read More »