Escape from Diab by Archimage
Nominated for a Webby Award, Escape from Diab is a unique educational game. Players fight alongside Deejab and Delinda against evil King Etes to turn the city of Diab back into the Golden City. The King has banished all exercise opportunities in the city and is instead feeding the population unlimited amounts of free junk food. The only way to win the fight and defeat King Etes is by making healthy lifestyle choices - such as eating right and exercising.
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action-adventure
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Harpooned by Conor O'Kane
Harpooned is a free game for Windows and Mac. It is a Cetacean Research Simulator where you play the role of a Japanese scientist performing research on whales around Antarctica. More accurately, you shoot explosive harpoons at whales to do 'research' while avoiding protesters.
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scrolling shooter
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Nanoswarm: Invasion from Inner Space by Archimage
Nanoswarm: Invasion from Inner Space is a serious videogame adventure in healthy eating and exercise. Nanoswarm's rich, immersive role-playing puts teenagers inside a videogame that blends sci-fi action and adventure with evidence-based behavior modification theories.
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Rapid Onset by Visual Purple
Not available to the public, Rapid Onset is a serious game used by the United States government to train spies and improve the quality of their analysis. This game specifically features the 'Eight Questions of Intelligence Analysis' that can be used for problem solving.
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simulation
Windows
Simulynx by Terris-Hill
Simulynx is a serious game created to trains new workers for potentially dangerous work on an oil rig.
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serious game
simulation
Windows
Snellman by LudoCraft
Snellman is an educational game featuring interesting historical details as well as problem-solving tasks. This game is targeted at students between 7 and 15 years old.
educational game
serious game
Windows
Spatial Information Exploration & Visualization Environment by Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information
This project is unique in its ability to provide both an automated creation of virtual worlds from spatial data infrastructure and the subsequent ability to link the virtual world back to a geographic information system. The link allows for editing of the world in either 2D or 3D, operation of process and analytical models in the GIS and immediate transfer of outcomes into the virtual world for natural interpretation.
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Windows
Sudden Thrust by Visual Purple
Sudden Thrust is a serious game developed by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency to quickly train the next generation of spies in a computer-generated environment. In this action-packed simulation, your analyst finds himself in a crisis situation when terrorists sail a hijacked natural-gas tanker into New York Harbor.
action-adventure
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simulation
Windows
Valador Immersive Visualization Environment by Valador
Valador's VIVE service takes modeling and simulation beyond 2-dimensional data to 3-D representation of real world objects. This service is used to develop NASA's Distributed Observer Network (DON), enabling NASA engineers and analysts worldwide to collaborate over simulation results. Using modern game engine technology, the visualization of the results of the models and simulations are enhanced.
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simulation
Windows