2021 Serious Games Showcase & Challenge winners: CoronaQuest

The awards ceremony took place in December 2021. The contest names winners in six categories, and the People's Choice award ended in a tie.

CoronaQuest, the Best Government Game, is an online strategy card game developed by DNA Studios for the Education, Youth and Culture Department of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It teaches students protective and hygiene measures for a safer return to school during the Covid-19 pandemic. Heroes who stand for people who can help, such as parents, teachers and nurses, are backed by defensive cards that block the virus and offensive cards that strengthen the heroes.

Basic Vectoring, powered by StrataGem and developed by Rigil, won Best Business Game. It teaches turn radius, aircraft performance and wind effects to early air traffic controller students and anyone interested in the work, then builds up to phraseology and giving vectoring commands. Best Student-Developed Game went to Vector Unknown: Echelon Seas by Christopher Olson of Arizona State University, in which stranded players solve linear algebra puzzles to recover the pieces of their ship.

Legends of Europe, a People's Choice winner, is an online treasure hunt in an imaginary world inspired by medieval fantasy, with scenery built from panoramic Google Street views, for a young audience. TC3Sim 2020, the other People's Choice winner, is a first-person game that trains combat medics and combat lifesavers in battlefield treatment and triage under the principles of Tactical Combat Casualty Care.

Street Smarts VR, the Best XR Game, is a virtual reality decision-making game that lets first responders face hard situations several times in a safe setting before meeting them on the street. CodAR, the Innovation Award winner, is an augmented reality game that introduces programming concepts such as sequence, functions and loops.

The contest is part of the I/ITSEC conference in Orlando, Florida, and has run yearly from 2006. A panel of evaluators from around the world reviews the finalists and selects the winners, except for People's Choice, which attendees vote on.

The contest's results page for 2021, on sgschallenge.org, loads in November 2026 and lists the six awards. It names the tied People's Choice entry from Engineering & Computer Simulations as Tactical Combat Casualty Care Simulation (2020).

Rigil's StrataGem page loads. The page lists Basic Vectoring as a module and offers access through a demo request by e-mail. The address coronaquest.game shows a French and English page carrying a browser-compatibility notice, and every other address on that site shows the same page, so it does not show that the game is on offer. The official pages of the other five winners were not opened.