Overview

Serious Games

Beyond entertainment, virtual worlds can become serious games. Many businesses can benefit from a 3D online space for training, simulation, and business interactions. A serious game can seamlessly shift from scripted, pre-recorded situations to real-time user control, supporting a much lower learning curve than other, comparable e-learning tools. Depending on the audience you wish to reach and the situations and concepts you want to explore, a serious game could more closely resemble an entertaining game, an interactive tool, or a detailed simulation program. Icarus can provide relevant specialty tools and interfaces to visualize, construct, and manage any and all of those combinations within your serious game.

Icarus’ serious games support SCORM compliance and other LMS standards. With experienced on-staff training professionals and a close relationship with instructional design companies such as the American Research Institute (ARI), Icarus is poised to design your serious game solution from start to finish or simply provide you with the tools you need for your own in-house development.

Cisco conducted internal training for 400 employees from around the world on our platform including dual live video feeds. She was pleased with the results.

"From their very helpful, knowledgeable and accessible staff, to their extensive suite of tools, Icarus enabled us to get up to speed quickly and get our users participating in the virtual world experience within the timeframes we required.

Icarus' focus on open standards and their robust development toolset helped us to customize and build out the virtual world quickly, with very little training needed up front due to the highly intuitive nature of the tools. All in all, it was a great experience!"

Emily Chung
Mgr, Learning Technologies
WWSE - Sales Force Development