USC Game Innovation Lab: serious games award results and games on file

The Game Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California designed the FutureBound suite, formerly called Collegeology Games, to help middle and high school students understand college applications and access. It includes the card game Application Crunch, for three to four players, and Mission: Admission, a time-management game played over a week of real time. A prototype was play-tested with more than 300 high school students in Los Angeles.

USC Game Innovation Lab appears in 1 award row on file, in 2022: 1 in International Serious Play Awards. By result, the rows for USC Game Innovation Lab are 1 Gold row. Its top result is Gold for Walden, a game EDU at the 2022 Serious Play, category K-12. 4 games on file name USC Game Innovation Lab as maker: Application Crunch, FutureBound, Graduate Strike Force and Mission: Admission. By topic, the games of USC Game Innovation Lab cover career exploration and financial literacy. Mission: Admission could still be played from the maker's page at the last reading.