Tanzanian Trader is a game designed for Standard 7 students in Tanzania, Africa. The game helps students prepare for the standardized national exam students must take to receive their primary school certificate. The game also helps students develop their computer literacy skills.
Deliberative games can become a new genre of serious games (games with a purpose beyond entertainment) that provides an urgently needed, non-partisan, trustworthy medium which supports personal and public deliberation about difficult yet crucial socio-scientific issues.
InvestiGaming.com was an online gateway to academic and industry research on gender and gaming. The idea was to provide a centralized location for all of the existing and future research on gender and gaming. This new level of accessibility is expected to greatly assist both the academic community, as well as commercial game designers.
An MSU team of medical doctors and psychiatrists researched game technology to assist with the rehabilitation of children with cerebral malaria. The goal was to see if cognitive games are a viable method to aid in the rehabilitation of young patients (age 4 to 12) who suffered cognitive repercussions resulting from malaria.
In Kitchen Disasters, you play the role of a restaurant manager trying to advance from a small sandwich shop to a 5-star gourmet restaurant while dealing with food safety challenges. The goal is to educate players about proper food handling, preparation, storage and disposal techniques and the importance of overall cleanliness in food safety.
Dealertown Ford is the winning entry in Ford Credit’s “Winning At Money” Challenge. The three-month challenge tasked student game development groups at Big Ten rivals, MSU’s SpartaSoft and UoM’s WolverineSoft, to create an online game that would help educate consumers about using credit responsibly.
Spartan Remix is a web-based music construction game that allows players to interactively build, mix, and share their own version of the Michigan State University fight song. The game was developed for the MSU Alumni Association to help build school spirit and maintain a relationship with alumni.
From attention and memory to logic and language skills, our games empower each player to play at their ideal level of challenge – just hard enough to grow, but easy enough to be fun. These “good for you” games can be played in as little as 10 minutes. Each Brain Powered Game is designed to exercise one or more different brain functions.
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