Future Journeys: Games Lab
Pervasive Games
Pervasive Games as action learning
Future Journeys specialises in Simulation Games, both for entertainment and learning.
Future Journeys is working with colleagues to develop pervasive games – games played in the real world using communications media: phones, internet, public webcams, to create a game space and game play. We are excited by the opportunities offered to explore the globe with each other using these pervasive technologies. The serious side to this of course is the opportunity to use global learning environments to develop futures skills and foresight collaboratively. From an isolated village like St Briavels Castle to the global village…….
Simulations and Role playing games as Action learning
Janine is part of a national group established to explore the strength of action learning in behavioural learning – deep long-term learning. Comprised of both distinguished academics and innovative practitioners, this group is involved in making Australia a leading innovator in deep learning. The sideline of this of course is that it makes learning fun and immersive.
The Future Journeys Serious Games Lab Team comprises of young people from diverse backgrounds, such as design, art, IT, social media and events. This collaboration offers opportunities for creativity which resulted in the design and production of various serious games.
Games by Future Journeys
We have created the following Games in 2009:
A Race Against Time
a serious pervasive game, played on 10 May 2009 in Sydney as part of the Vibewire e-Festival of Ideas. Participants needed to find secret agents and find clues to save the world. see more…
CSI Ultimo
was designed as part of the Ultimo Science Festival with the purpose to engage attendees more with the themes of the festival. Therefore CSI (Creative Science Investigation) Ultimo was played out as a hunt for scientific clues within the spaces of the Ultimo Science Festival (ABC Building, TAFE, UTS, Powerhouse Museum) which led to the final revealing of a world-changing scientific project… see more…
Live Scientists 2020 (Live Futures 2020)
as part of Live Futures 2020 festival in 2009, organised by Global Youth Futures and supported by Future Journeys, Live Scientists 2020 was designed as QR code based game. Participants used their web-enabled phones to scan the codes once they found the scientists by following the clues given.
Serious Games Lab Team:
Janine Cahill
Michelle Vandermeer
Eve Baker
Rachel Beaney
Jana Wunderlich
Lucy Wang
