Entry is open for Serious Games to showcase their best for 2018
The Serious Games Showcase and Challenge Australasia (SGSCA) is now open for Australian and New Zealand Serious Games to enter for 2018. SGSCA is partnering with SimGHOSTS 2018 Australia, to be held at the USC campus on the Sunshine Coast in June, to hosts the finalists. Entries close 27th April with finalist announced May to be showcased on Jun 27-29 2018. Winners will represent our region at the 2018 International SGS&C in Orlando Florida USA as part of I/ITSEC in December Melbourne, Australia: The stage is set for the 2018 Serious Games Showcase and Challenge Australasia (SGSCA), and we are now open for any games with more than just entertainment at its heart to be submitted for the 2018 competition. The SGSCA looks for games that showcase the best of what the field has to offer from both Australia and New Zealand. The Serious Games Showcase & Challenge (Australasia) is traditionally presented at the Australasian Simulation Congress. In 2018 the Congress will take a break (to return in 2019), so the 7th annual SGSCA will be presented at SimGHOSTS 2018 to be held June 27th-29th 2018 at University of the Sunshine Coast. SimGHOSTS is one of the premiere medical simulation conferences within Australia. Serious Games, Serious Competition. The competition is open to all Australian and New Zealand residents making a game on their shores. For the purpose of the SGSCA, entries will be considered a serious game if they utilise gaming attributes to overcome a designated problem or inform about a particular topic or deficiency. It would be ideal if the game was built through collaboration with an expert agency from any field where a problem or deficiency has been identified and needs to be addressed. The finalists will be selected by a panel of leaders in the gaming, simulation and academic…
