Hammer & Planks Screenshot
The 5th Edition of e-virtuoses, the International Serious Games Conference organized
by the Grand Hainaut Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) and held on 4 and 5 June 2013 in Valenciennes, announced last week the five winners of the
e-virtuoses Awards 2013 (please find also e-virtuoses Evaluating And Measuring The Impact Of Serious Games).
The event enrolled
this year 500 attendees and 10 nationalities, with an ambitious program
consisting of 4 interactive workshops dedicated to the process of Serious Games
creation; 25 scientific presentations in the context of the International
Scientific Symposium intended to evaluate and measure the impact of Serious Games;
the e-virtuoses Awards competition and more than 30 exhibitors.
An
independent international jury chaired by Chris Crawford auditioned the 20 award
finalists in 5 categories: Serious Games For Health / Serious Games For
Communication/ Serious Games For Training / Serious Gaming / Gamification.
Hammer
& Planks, developed by NaturalPad, from
Prades-le-Lez/ France, was the winner of the Serious Games For Health category.
Hammers & Planks is a vertical shooter in which players control a ship through their body
balance. Players must avoid reefs, eliminate enemies, recover planks and get as
much gold as possible. With the recovered material players can improve their
ship (add a canon, a cabin, enlarge the bridge etc.) and also recruit a crew. In
short, everything they need to become the king of the sea!
The game was developed in
collaboration with the Institute of Occupational Training of Paris-Est Creteil
to offer stroke patients an alternative therapy to recover a set of balance faculties
and was first tested with hemiplegic patients on the Wii Board.
Hammer & Planks can also be played by the general public and is suitable for multiple
platforms: Nintendo Wii Board, MS Kinect, via Xbox controllers on the PC, as
well as tablets and smartphones touchscreen interfaces.
Other Winners
Of The e-virtuoses Awards 2013:
Category: Serious Games For
Training
I-CARE – by UFR Ingemedia/ Eurocopter– La Garde/ France
Category: Serious Games For Communication
Data Dealer- by Cuteacute– Vienne/ Austria
Category: Gamification
Plug: Secrets of the Museum – by Play Ubiquitous Game & Play More– Paris/ France
Category: Serious Gaming
Arcadémie – by ECDC Association– Alès/ France