Global Conflicts Latin America

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Global Conflicts Latin America
PhD Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen CEO Serious Games
Interactive Oslo, 21. April 2008
The forgotten continent requires a tough
journalist
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About our company
Background and team
SGI was founded in 2006 in Copenhagen,
Denmark The company focuses on developing
serious games for educational institutions We
develop high-quality games that contain an
inseparable combination of playing, learning
and story-telling. This is done by a unique
cross-disciplinary team with strong roots in
research SGI has been steadily growing and
employs 10 people today (CEO, Commercial
Director, Producer, Game Director, Lead
Programmer, Programmer, Lead 3D animator, 3D
artist, Character artist, Tester)
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About our company
Portfolio
Commercial titles Global Conflicts Palestine
(complete) Global Conflicts Latin America
(production) Playing History (concept) Client
projects Bolivia Brænder (complete) Mayas Eventyr
(complete) Darwin (production) Uganda-game
(production)
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What is Global Conflicts Latin America
Overview
Framework from GC P. Same didactic approach
support material. Target group Students aged
13-19 years Subjects Citizenship, geography,
media, language ethics Languages English,
Spanish Danish (planned). Themes Unstable
democracies, border trouble, pollution,
exploitation, ethnic differences, debt slavery,
developing countries immigration
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What is Global Conflicts Latin America
Gameplay

• Freelance journalist
• Get the best final interview for your article
• Find informants
• Select strong line of inquiry
• Get good statements
• Build arguments
• Use arguments to get expose interview
• Most revealing story

You Goal Means Winning
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What is Global Conflicts Latin America
Teaching form
Teacher talks
Play Game
Group discussions
Plenum

• Read topic overview
• Overview of theme
• Teachers manual
• Topics overview
• Curriculum mapping

• Explore perspectives
• Experience issues

• Discuss experiences
• Write article
• Worksheets
• Online companion

• Debriefing
• Evaluation

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What is Global Conflicts Latin America
Different rooms for learning styles

• Kolbs cycle covered with different teaching
  forms in the course.
• The teacher is crucial to facilitate a full
  learning experience.

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What is Global Conflicts Latin America
Improvements

• More engaging game play
• Expanded save-system
• Browser-based for optimal online network use
• Window-mode for shifting between game other
  applications
• Better graphics interface
• Less travel time better navigation
• Easier for teachers to track student progress
  facilitate debriefing
• Even better performance low-end hardware

Explore the forgotten continent of Latin America
with all its rotten politics, economy violence.
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Contact details
Follow our progress Company www.seriousgames.dk
Game www.globalconflicts.eu E-mail
info_at_seriousgames.dk
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Release September 2008