{"id":7140,"date":"2018-11-20T10:36:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T17:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=7140"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:36:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T17:36:59","slug":"worth-sharing-serious-games-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/11\/20\/worth-sharing-serious-games-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth Sharing: Serious Games Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7141  alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ID-10097423-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ID-10097423-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ID-10097423-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ID-10097423.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/> A new resource well worth checking out!<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.seriousgames.today<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"4\" cellpadding=\"3\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Who Made This?<\/b><br \/>\nThis site was built by Digitalmill, Inc. Digitalmill is a consulting and development firm focused on games, videogames, and their related technologies led by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/about.me\/bensawyer\" data-external=\"true\">Ben Sawyer<\/a>.<\/span><\/span>Based in Freeport, Maine, just north of Portland, Digitalmill helps innovative projects, works with great teams, and seeks to advance the use of games for entertainment and non-entertainment purposes.<\/p>\n<p><b>Any Methodology Notes?<\/b><br \/>\nWe submit various queries for articles matching various search criteria. In many cases we filter out addiction and shooting stories because our goal is to focus on surfacing news about new products and initiatives and not these volatile topics. Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/\" data-external=\"true\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0to search for information on topics you don&#8217;t see in our results.<\/p>\n<p>Duplicates are caused by our multiple topic submissions, and off-topic matches sometimes happen dispite efforts to filter out non-relevant content such as sports reports, etc.<\/p>\n<p><b>Where to Send Suggestions?<\/b><br \/>\nYou may send an email to staff [at] dmill [dot] com to contact us and suggest improvement.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-7140'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(7140);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(7140);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(7140);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A new resource well worth checking out! http:\/\/www.seriousgames.today Who Made This? This site was built by Digitalmill, Inc. Digitalmill is a consulting and development firm focused on games, videogames, and their related technologies led by\u00a0Ben Sawyer.Based in Freeport, Maine, just &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/11\/20\/worth-sharing-serious-games-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,379,376,12,371,396],"tags":[127,225,391,342,76],"class_list":["post-7140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-game-design","category-game-reviews","category-games","category-research","category-serious-games","tag-game-design","tag-game-based-learning","tag-games","tag-games-gaming","tag-serious-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1Ra","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7080,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/10\/12\/serious-games-and-the-role-of-gaming-beyond-entertainment-calgary-journal-online\/","url_meta":{"origin":7140,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Serious&#8221; games and the role of gaming beyond entertainment &#8211; Calgary Journal Online","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"October 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"By Jasper McGregor | jmcgregor@cjournal.ca Oct 11, 2018 Video games are changing as rapidly as our reliance on them, serving functions that go well beyond entertainment and escapism. 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