PlayGen Present The Serious Games Showcase And Design Workshop Event 12th May 2010 In London.

Online, April 30, 2010 (Newswire.com) - PlayGen are showing a whole raft of digital projects, using games to engage on serious topics, from health to policy to games made for changing behaviour to safety and much more. Rounding off with a hands on session designing a serious game or two collectively.

The event facilitators will be Kam Star, Mathew Henson, Annah Hutchings and James Allsopp.

Go to http://playgen.com/serious-games-showcase-design-workshop/ to register.

The day's agenda is as follows :

9:00 to 9:30 - Arrival

9:30 - Serious Games for Police and Community Engagement, we'll examine projects on :

+Preventing Violent Extremism
+Reducing Knife Crime
+Affecting Drinking and Driving Behaviour

10:15 - Serious Games for Health, covering projects on :

+Reducing teenage pregnancy
+Reducing remission in cancer patients
+Training for Coronary Artery Bypass
+Learning about Nanomedicine in curing cancer
+Triage training

11:30 - Serious Games for Government and Policy :

+UK Flood Policy - raising public awareness
+Public policy engagement using games
+Games to help voters understand running for office
+Controlling the country's budget
+Dealing with human rights and immigration
+Oil, war, corruption and the control of finite resources

12:30 - 1:30 - Lunch and Hands On session to play the games from the morning

1:30 - Serious games in Defence and Military

+Battlefield Situational Awareness
+Location Awareness
+Open Source Virtual World for Defence

2:15 - Designing, developing, commissioning Serious Games and Game Based Learning products

3:30 - Hands on Design workshop - where we collectively design a serious game or two.

5:00 Round off and refreshments