TechATstate's Blog Posts Tagged 'serious' (5)

Can games get any more serious than this?

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The event is over now but the discussion goes on. Feel free to share your thoughts below. We've posted videos and pictures and here are some presentations and documents from the speakers. Others are too large but we're creating a way to share those and will post that soon.

 

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These are some of the great speakers that will be at the upcoming Tech@State:Serious Games.

Saad Khan

Saad Khan is a partner at CMEA Capital and leads their digital media and Web efforts. This includes seed and early stage investments in crowdsourcing companies Pixazza, Blekko, and LiveOps as well as Jobvite and Evolution Robotics. Prior to CMEA, Saad was a Venture Partner at Garage.com where he helped build Silicon…

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What are the best videos and presentations on serious games?



In the interest of framing the conversation ahead of Tech@State: Serious Games coming May 27-28, we're compiling the best shows on the topic. Some may not "get" the value of serious games, and others may have a different take, so we want to have a video library that can both inform and shape our conversation. We've added a few here but welcome your suggestions on what we all should watch so we're ready to talk Serious… Continue

Tech@State will next explore games, the serious games that teach, train and solve problems in ways the real world may not always allow. By bringing parties together in a virtual setting with defined rules and constraints, a serious game can help players understand a complex problem, empathize with an adversary, accomplish an otherwise unwieldy task, or develop a new model for business or governance. Leveraging technology to compartmentalize the chaos of the real world, the gaming experience can… Continue