PlayGen presents the Serious Games Showcase and Design Workshop Event 12th May 2010

London, United Kingdom, April 30, 2010 --(PR.com)-- PlayGen are showing a whole raft of digital projects, using games to engage on serious topics, from health games to policy games to games made for changing behaviour to safety and much more. Rounding off with a hands-on session designing a serious game or two collectively.

The event facilitators will be Kam Star, Mathew Henson, Annah Hutchings and James Allsopp.

Go to http://playgen.com/serious-games-showcase-design-workshop/ to register.

The day's agenda is as follows :

9:00 to 9:30 - Arrival

9:30 - Serious Games for Police and Community Engagement, we'll examine projects on :

+Preventing Violent Extremism
+Reducing Knife Crime
+Affecting Drinking and Driving Behaviour

10:15 - Serious Games for Health, covering projects on :

+Reducing teenage pregnancy
+Reducing remission in cancer patients
+Training for Coronary Artery Bypass
+Learning about Nanomedicine in curing cancer
+Triage training

11:30 - Serious Games for Government and Policy :

+UK Flood Policy - raising public awareness
+Public policy engagement using games
+Games to help voters understand running for office
+Controlling the country's budget
+Dealing with human rights and immigration
+Oil, war, corruption and the control of finite resources

12:30 - 1:30 - Lunch and Hands On session to play the games from the morning

1:30 - Serious games in Defence and Military

+Battlefield Situational Awareness
+Location Awareness
+Open Source Virtual World for Defence

2:15 - Designing, developing, commissioning Serious Games and Game Based Learning products

3:30 - Hands-on Design workshop - where we collectively design a serious game or two.

5:00 Round off and refreshments

The googlemap to get to PlayGen is here : http://playgen.com/playgen-addresses/ The London office nearest tube are Old Street and Liverpool Street.

Visit : http://playgen.com/serious-games-showcase-design-workshop/ for more information

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