Exploration of the Serious Games Taxonomy

Strategic planning is in the genre production and the sector corporate. Serious games that follow this line of thinking are primarily for people that want to manage their time and resources to get as much profit out of the time and resources spent to accomplish a specific goal. Another way to see this instead of time and resources is with risk and reward.

People that could use this type of game are entrepreneurs and business managers.

Example games:

• Village The Game is an online world and strategy game designed to get people addicted to third world development. The player has to form a team, build an enterprise and try to eradicate poverty.

Village The Game Promo Video

• The IBM Service Management Virtual Simulator (IBM V Sim) is an immersive learning game where players learn through a variety of hands-on sessions, experiencing issues affecting service management and corporate profitability in a simulated, virtual organization.

IBM Service Management Virtual Simulator

Research Papers in Domain

• I. S. Mayer, W. Bockstael-Blok, E. C. Valentin (2004) A Building Block Approach to Simulation: An Evaluation Using Containers Adrift, in Simulation and Gaming, vol. 35 ,  no. 1 pp. 29 – 52
• S. Hu, P. E. Lehner (1997) Multipurpose Strategic Planning In the Game of Go, in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 19, no. 9 pp. 1048-1051

Example developer:

• http://www.breakawaygames.com/
• http://www.businessgames.nl/

References

• The Z/Yen Group of Companies, (2009) Available at: http://www.zyen.com/Services/Strategic_Planning.htm [Accessed 22 November 2009]
• Eliane Alhadeff, (2009) Available at: http://www.futurelab.net/blogs/business-games/2009/04/ibm_service_management_serious.html [Accessed 22 November 2009]
• Anglia Ruskin University, (2009) Available at: http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm? [Accessed 23 November 2009]