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Serious Games Discussion Listserv

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Serious Games Initiative

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An email discussion list for growing community of individuals and organizations building games for applied purposes other than entertainment. This is a broad discussion that focuses on education, training, and policy and management exploration initiatives.

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id Tech 2 (Quake 2 Engine)

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id Software

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“Formerly the "QUAKE 2 Engine", with pioneering innovation in 3D environments, a few of id Tech 2's most notable features were out-of-the-box support for OpenGL hardware-accelerated graphics (in addition to the traditional software renderer), and colored lighting effects. Games created on this engine technology include QUAKE II, Hexen II, Heretic II, Sin, Soldier Of Fortune, Half-Life, Kingpin and Anachronox.”

Valve Developer Community

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Valve

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"The Valve Developer Community is a site built by and for all users of the Source engine SDK. Because the site is a WIKI, any member can edit the site's content simply by clicking the 'edit' tab near the top of any page. Whether you have a short contribution or would like to add whole new sections, please treat this site as an open forum."

FaceFX

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OC3 Entertainment

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Thinking Worlds

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Caspian Learning

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“Thinking Worlds is a globally unique 3D engine and authoring environment. Thinking Worlds enables designers to create and publish highly immersive simulations- fast.”

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Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)

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American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

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CryEngine 2

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Crytek

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“Our [game] engine was designed from the very beginning to support 64 bit multiple core processors, to be as platform independent as possible, and to scale across many generations of hardware, including hardware which has not yet even been released.“ CryEngine 3 is also available and included in the resources section of this database.

The Serious Games Networking Portal

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“SeriousGames.ning.com is intended as a web portal to serious games news, resources and companies. Its secondary goal is to enable networking between anyone with an interest in serious games.”

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