Perfect
World, developed by BreakAway Games for The Baltimore
County Public Schools (BCPS), was selected as a finalist in the 2013 Serious Game Showcase and Challenge in the Business
Category, one of the seven award categories of the SGS&C, at the 2013
Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) held
in Orlando, FL December 2 – 5, 2013.
Perfect
World is a science game about the water cycle targeting
the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) educational needs
of students covering topics from the biology, earth and space science and
environmental science curricula.
Perfect
World was created as part of the BCPS Learning in Virtual Environments (BCPS L.i.V.E.) program, in which student teams compete to
develop software games that incorporate elements of the BCPS curriculum into
game play.
Based on an original 2010 idea from
then-Woodlawn High School students Rufus and Rachel Carter, Perfect
World casts players as water molecules and takes them on a journey through
the water cycle in a variety of locations, infusing biology, earth and space
science, and environmental science instruction into the action.