May 24-27, 2010 Boston, MA
Games Beyond Entertainment Week is a series of one and two-day conferences designed to explore serious game and emerging market opportunities for videogames and videogame technologies.
Featuring over 10 unique events including the 6th Annual Games for Health Conference, Games Beyond Entertainment Week is focused on networking, promotion, business development, and knowledge sharing of interest to both the videogame industry and the multitude of sectors using or investing in videogames to further their specific organizational missions.
Our Event Roster...
Games for Health Conference
Game-based solutions are providing compelling means to increase physical activity, advance personal health, improve hospital operations, train healthcare providers, and advocate important healthcare information.
Learn and network through a broad range of featured content including specially developed tracks on Active Gaming, Medical Training & Education, Physical Therapy & Rehab, and Cognitive Gaming.
For more info visit: http://www.gamesforhealth.org
Serious Games Festival & Conference
The Serious Games Initiative, with support from the Federation of American Scientists and other partners presents an event showcasing leading serious game projects and research to assist developers, sponsors, and partners operating in the serious games field.
This event kicks off Games Beyond Entertainment Week 2010 which offers a slew of events dedicated to exploring the edgier possibilities for videogames in today's global economy.
For more info visit: http://www.seriousgamesfestival.com
Out & About : The Mobile Serious Games Conference
Out & About is the first ever event dedicated to the creation and distribution of serious games on mobile platforms.
New platforms, digital distribution strategies, and robust installed bases in mobile phones, and mobile handheld consoles have created an environment that makes it far more possible to consider deployment of serious games in the mobile space.
Out & About offers a means to see a combination of pioneering mobile serious games from the recent years alongside a number of new developments happening on iPhone, Android, and Nintendo DSi. From ARGs, to pedometer powered adventures, Out & About will bring you up-to-speed on this exciting new area of the serious games field.
For more info visit: http://www.seriousgamesfestival.com/oaa/
3rd Annual Games Accessibility Day
Help everyone play. Games Accessibility Day explores all aspects of making games more accessible and creating games specifically for people with temporary, chronic, and lifelong disabilities. Join our gathering of gamers, researchers, developers & health professionals to discuss and advance the state of games accessibility for fun, health, and education.
For more info visit: http://www.gamesaccessibilityday.org
3rd Annual Virtual Worlds & Health Day
Massive Multiplayer Games and social virtual world platforms such as WhyVille? Second Life and Habbo Hotel offer exciting platforms for health research, application development, and messaging. Spend a day exploring these opportunities and pioneering case studies covering opportunities in epidemiology, behavior change, professional training, and therapy.
For more information visit: http://www.gamesforhealth/vworlds/
Emerging Markets in Videogames Symposium
This special event is a single track conference which is going to specifically look at all sorts of highly emergent efforts in commercial entertainment and non-traditional sectors. The goal of the event is to create a place for understanding new opportunities in games as well as provide a forum for discussion of how such innovative areas can be created and nurtured long-term.
For more info visit: http://www.emergingplay.com
Serious Games Design & Development Bootcamp
Our serious games design and development bootcamp provides a deep dives on content that we know is useful for new and experienced developers alike. It is part of our continuing effort to help projects and organizations new & old benefit from the various best practices and advice on building serious games that has been gathered so far.
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iPhone Design & Production Bootcamp
With the debut of Apple’s iPhone system mobile development of serious games has finally become incredibly plausible. This workshop, while focusing primarily on iPhone, is designed to provide all attendees with a deep understanding of how to bring serious game ideas to life on not only the iPhone but several important mobile & handheld platforms including Google Android, and Nintendo’s DS.
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