Sparks of Eternity is a custom, collaboratively designed adventure game between the Games for Entertainment and Learning (GEL) Lab at Michigan State University and the Frankel Jewish Academy. The goal is to foster enhanced engagement in the Academy’s rabbinic curriculum.
Help the Master Wizard prevent the dragons from stealing magic from the world. To do this, you must climb ancient towers and free the magic coins that are being hoarded in treasure chests by the dragons. But be careful, you may end up finding a dragon on top of the tower!
Brain Powered Games Africa is a growing collection of digital games developed in the Games for Entertainment and Learning (GEL) Lab at Michigan State University. Each game focuses on exercising one or more cognitive abilities, including attention, memory, language, visual/spatial functions, and executive functions.
The challenge of learning how credit works, how to implement a monthly budget, and how to properly handle ones finances is that mistakes in real-life during the learning process can be costly. To aid in this challenge, Spartan Villa bridges this gap by creating a realistic financial system embedded in a fun, low-pressure game world.
Driving Skills for Life provides players with real-world skills that will help them become better drivers on the road. The game is based on the live hands-on driving training events conducted by the Ford Driving Skills for Life program, but available to millions of young drivers around the world on the internet.
In DNA Roulette, players bet on whether an individual has a trait (such as brown eyes) or will develop a disease. The odds are based on real world statistics and genetics research. In Round 1, you bet before you know the odds. Round 2 shows general population odds. Round 3 reveals the actual odds based on that person’s genes.
Carrie Heeter from the MediaInfo department was awarded a $287,000 two year NSF grant to study motivation and serious gaming. The project is a collaborative effort between MSU and Georgia Tech University with Michigan State as the lead institution.
Created for MSU’s Environmental Stewards, MSU Green League is a web-based educational game to promote sustainability in everyday decision making. Each player is part of a team and earns points for completing challenges in the workplace. Challenges are real sustainable behaviors that help MSU meet its broad sustainability goals.
Olympus is a fantasy role-playing game that allows players to immerse themselves in the wondrous time of Ancient Greek history and myth. Through the use of a unique combination of input devices, the virtual actions of your avatar in the game world are driven by the players corresponding physical actions in the real world.