tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1277522 2009-04-23T08:46:40-07:00 serious thoughts about immersive environments for learning and productivity TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-65928561 2009-04-23T08:46:40-07:00 2009-04-23T08:46:40-07:00

This is a really big day for me, and I hope for serious games in general. Today, I'm going to let you in on a secret, but I have to ask you to keep quiet about it. Pinky promise? We...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ImSeriousnet/~4/c_8HO46YQTk" height="1" width="1"/>

Anne Derryberry http://imserious.typepad.com/imserious/2009/04/psst-serious-gamers-can-you-keep-a-secret.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-65414781 2009-04-13T12:19:56-07:00 2009-04-15T16:36:09-07:00

I'm having an increasingly difficult time defining two words that one hears a lot lately, what with the "new economy" and all. More and more of us mid-career (the new euphemism for "middle aged") folks are trying to figure out...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ImSeriousnet/~4/RmR1el0FDPc" height="1" width="1"/>

Anne Derryberry http://imserious.typepad.com/imserious/2009/04/entrepreneurial-retirement.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-64944453 2009-04-02T00:00:00-07:00 2009-04-01T16:11:44-07:00

I've been trying to put into words the flat feeling I was left with after the Serious Games Summit. Perhaps it's the word "summit" that generates expectations too lofty to be achieved. I had dreams of heated conversation about the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ImSeriousnet/~4/KhiwmVRWYhE" height="1" width="1"/>

Anne Derryberry http://imserious.typepad.com/imserious/2009/04/gdc-not-a-banner-year-for-serious-games.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-64946983 2009-04-01T10:33:35-07:00 2009-04-01T10:33:06-07:00

One of the few general sessions I was able to attend at last week's GDC focused on the lack of women in games, both on the player and the creator sides of the equation. As the panelists were speaking about...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ImSeriousnet/~4/gOhIqwosRcs" height="1" width="1"/>

Anne Derryberry http://imserious.typepad.com/imserious/2009/04/women-and-serious-games.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-64672337 2009-03-26T11:54:36-07:00 2009-03-26T11:54:36-07:00

IBM announced today their new Virtual Service Management Simulator. The game is an immersive 3D learning game which, according to IBM, is "based in a realistic virtual organization where players learn how service management and IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) processes...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ImSeriousnet/~4/-Vo1BQCCxdM" height="1" width="1"/>

Anne Derryberry http://imserious.typepad.com/imserious/2009/03/just-announced-ibms-virtual-service-management-simulator.html