Serious What?
Breaking the serious game barrier
If you follow this blog, you have probably read The CEO Game introduction post (and if you didn’t, you should), and by now you understand that we are developing a serious game. This might be the first time you have ever encountered this phrase, and why is that? serious games were among us long before the Internet or even the PC ever existed. We used to play card games or board games that tried to educate us and enrich our minds. As time evolved, so did we: as game consumers we became more demanding. We wanted better graphics, better sound effects and better ideas – and then came the computer industry to fill that gap. Computer games had more graphics which improved from year to year, better sound effects, and new ideas. The more the computer industry evolved, the more the main stream emphasized exciting the masses, rather than educating them.
Where are the serious games?
The serious games industry hasn’t died – it is just evolving slower than the main stream game industry. There are thousands of serious games out there. Leading universities use them to educate their students and give them an experience as close to reality as possible , mainly using them as business simulations. There are hundreds of studies that indicate serious games can assist in improving the learning experience. So why is this the first time you hear about serious games? The reason is that most of the serious games are developed by in-house teams for private purposes, which means that if you don’t belong to an organization that works with serious games, you’ll probably never get to see them.
Breaking a barrier
We strongly believe that by setting an example with The CEO Game as a massive online serious game, we can push the serious games evolution one step further, in the same way that Google did to search engines, and YouTube to movie-sharing. We also believe that we can give you a unique and interesting learning experience.
And most of all – we strongly believe that you should keep visiting our blog for further updates and news.
Mike.
The CEO Game.
