{"id":2093,"date":"2008-04-23T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T16:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2009-02-11T15:21:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T20:21:28","slug":"serious-games-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2093","title":{"rendered":"Serious Games Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriousgamesinstitute.co.uk\/\"><img src='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/sgi-logo.png' alt='SGI Logo' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just stumbled upon the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriousgamesinstitute.co.uk\/\">Serious Games Institute<\/a> (SGI) at Coventry University. Their aim is, &#8220;to become an international centre of excellence for serious games and a model of best practice for regional development through technology innovation.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriousgamesinstitute.co.uk\/about.aspx\">About Us<\/a>) They seem to be focused on developing games to teach business, and the games seem to be fairly sophisticated. (See their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriousgamesinstitute.co.uk\/Showcase\/Default.aspx\">Showcase<\/a>.) It is interesting how serious gaming is being used to revitalize a region. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brocku.ca\/webnews\/displaystory.phtml?sid=1672\">nGen (Niagara Interactive Media Generator)<\/a>, recently announced by Brock, is a similar initiative that is connecting with Silicon Knights to kickstart game development as a way of generating new industry. <\/p>\n<p>The Serious Games Institute seems to use Second Life a lot where <a href=\"http:\/\/slurl.com\/secondlife\/SGI%20Nexus\/128\/128\/26\/\">they have an island<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just stumbled upon the Serious Games Institute (SGI) at Coventry University. Their aim is, &#8220;to become an international centre of excellence for serious games and a model of best practice for regional development through technology innovation.&#8221; (About Us) They seem to be focused on developing games to teach business, and the games seem to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2093\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Serious Games Institute<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computers-and-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}