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YouTube: Serious games get boost at IU Ed School with Vicious EngineThis forum post is dated 08/19/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. Indiana - Software Development
| YouTube: Serious games get boost at IU Ed School with Vicious Engine The Indiana University School of Education has signed a contract with Chapel Hill, NC-based Vicious Cycle Software, Inc. to provide access to its game design software solution, called Vicious Engine, for students working on computer game design. Vicious Engine is a middleware solution, which allows designers to tie together software components and applications to develop games. Middlewares like Vicious Engine often save game companies millions of dollars in development costs, and this partnership will afford students the same professional software package that developers use to create games that are now on store shelves. A cohort of graduate students in the Instructional Systems Technology department of the School of Education will use the program to design games; students in an undergraduate class will use the program to build the designs into prototypes. The program will give students working on developing "serious games" the ability to produce desired outcomes much more precisely. Serious games are games intended to educate or inform, rather than simply entertain. Such games might be utilized in a classroom, but also for training in the workplace and other situations. |
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