Posts tagged Serious Gaming
Health, Fitness and Games: Serious Fun.
May 30th
The G4H 2010 Boston conference is over and has already been hailed a tremendous success. This is the 6th G4H conference, with this year’s event being split across two main venue areas.
The outside area encompassed the specialised “Exergaming Zone” created by our US partner Exegame Fitness USA. The Exergame Zone was incredibly popular plus being integral to demonstrating the physical ‘real world’ incarnations of Exergaming.
A contest, ‘One Million Steps’ was instituted to raise money for charity and to energize participants at the conference. The entire event was a showcase for the wonderful potential of Games for Health and Exergaming. Kudos to the organisers and attendees for their professionalism, enthusiasm and passion. G4H opitmises our Exergaming Australia motto of, Serious Fun.
Serious money in Serious Gaming
May 24th
The South Korean government has pledged to invest 80 billion Won (US$63m) into the nation’s growing serious games market – http://bit.ly/fPN0v
“The government expects these investments will catalyse the nation’s Serious Games sector growth to reach a market value of $400 million by 2012.”
The South Korean government and associated partners are to be applauded for the foresight. The market in Serious Gaming, Gaming for Health and Exergaming seems patently obvious, I hope the Australian government is being approached by lobby groups and can take some inspiration to what is happening elsewhere in Australasia.
With Rudds emphasis on bringing our region in from the Broadband abyss, the time seems ripe to develop parallel offline and online technology driven businesses. Australia could be very well placed to deliver worlds best practices in the brave new world of gaming, both for pleasure and enterprise.
Should any Australian ‘games’ practitioners/developers/innovators etc, be reading this, please lend your weight to our fledgling Exergaming google groups at http://groups.google.com/group/exergames-australia?hl=en
