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credit: StellarX by OVA
ORLANDO -- August 4, 2020 - Two games created for use in Military or Government Training have been awarded for their excellence in the 2020 International Serious Play Awards Program
A Silver Medal was awarded to:
Contagion, a game
of ideological domination. The goal of the game is to win by either controlling
regions or by converting population to follow your ideology. The game has four
main factions. Player use agents to gain support for their ideology and to turn
away the population from another faction's ideology. Players learn speed and
maneuverability in a confronted situation. Contagion was developed by the Naval
Postgraduate School for use by the Department of Defense.
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credit: Contagion by the Naval Postgraduate School for use by the Department of
DefenseA Bronze Medal was awarded to:
StellarX, a
user-friendly AI-enabled technology platform that allows users to create a
virtual reality (VR) environment that can be used for training, simulations,
design thinking, operations, and maintenance or even layout configuration
planning.
StellarX does
not require coding and is compatible with a variety of commercially available
VR systems such as HTC Vive, HTC Vive Pro, Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift S, and
Windows Mixed Reality. StellarX was created by OVA, a
studio based in Quebec, Canada.
Image credit: StellarX by OVA
The International Serious Play Awards honor outstanding game-based
learning titles used for education or training.
For information on the International Serious Play Awards, go here:http://seriousplayconf.com/awards