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Serious Games Event

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The event is designed to showcase serious games and emphasize networking. It is not a set of lectures. More then a dozen serious games developed in the UK and elsewhere will be featured expo style.

This event is designed to showcase serious games and emphasize networking...

It is not a set of lectures. More then a dozen serious games developed in the UK and elsewhere will be featured expo style. Attendees may mix, network, view and play the games, and interact with the developers behind them.

Cost: FREE event but booking essential!

RSVP!
To RSVP for this event please send an email with full contact information to: rsvp@seriousgames.org

To contact The Dana centre, tel: +0044 (0)207 942 4040

PRESS WELCOMED

Schedule

5:00pm Doors open
5:30pm-6:30pm Arrivals
6:30pm-7:15pm Remarks
7:15pm-8:30pm Open time
8:30pm-9:00pm Final remarks
10:30pm-11:00pm Breakdown of demos
11:00pm Event over

Games to Be Shown

We will showcase over a dozen strong examples of serious games work from the UK, US, and greater Europe. The final schedule of games isn't set yet but will be by EOD Monday.

We currently have games coming from Surrey Institute, Blitz Games, NESTA Futurelab, Aqua Pacific, DESQ, Imaginary, and TPLD -- all based in the UK. They will be joined by titles from Breakaway Games, Digitalmill, and Carnegie Melon University from the U.S.

We hope to have a few titles from greater Europe as well. All-in-all we expect it to be a very strong line-up with games ranging from casual browser based titles to full-on cutting-edge 3D titles.

Sponsors:

The Serious Games Initiative has instigated this event and was joined by Jon Weinbren of Imaginary Productions.

The Surrey Institute is our co-host for this event as they have provided generous underwriting for the event. Blitz Games, and Breakaway Games have also pledge sponsorship funds for which we are grateful.

We are also grateful to the many organizations and/or individuals with key organizations who are helping get the word out including TIGA, DTI, Creative London, Advantage West Midlands, Andy Fawkes (MoD), Mary-Margaret.com, and more.

Location

The Dana Centre, Science Museum, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London