Seriously!

This month the Escapist mag is covering Serious Games. Believe it or not, we're in the serious games genre as often as not. I haven't had a chance to read through the articles yet but I am interested in the topic. In my time here at the company I've had the opportunity to work on several cool projects with a serious bent. I remember meeting with a bunch of pentagon suits in D.C. one time and they wanted to use the game or a variant of it to track :"emergent behavior". I also remember stories from Killer about being at ITSEC and hearing brass and suits complain to their underlings: "look at that, 18 months and 7 million dollars" as they looked at our game. They naturally were comparing it to their own bloated and failed projects that couldn't show a helicopter and infantry in the same simulator. Read on then for more about serious games. I'm sure they aren't all war sims, just the fun ones.

The Escapist - Issue #82

P.S. The Escapist is one of those terribly laid out web sites that I can hardly stand to read. PDF here.