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Powerup – A serious game out in the wild

Powerup the game recently went live created by our colleagues here in IBM using the Torque games engine.
It is a scenario based game, with a multiplayer online team approach to help students understand the role of science in saving a planet.
This fits into the growing usage and acceptance of game based technology and finding ways to engage people in serious subjects but in a more entertaining way.
The game is a downloadable windows client, that then connects to the main servers.
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I captured a little video of some of the elements, the frame rate is much better live of course.

You get to select a first and second name from a list. This is to avoid any risky names I believe. So for once I am not epredator, but I did log on as Ian Hughes, imagine that! Though I did manage to only select the female avatar.
The rest of the communication is via menu systems, not freeform chat, again this is a protection mechanism given the target audience for the game.
Players can join missions, that are typically sharded ones and tasks are designed for more than one person to help complete.
The official website has much more information for parents and teachers. We here at eightbar cannot claim to have built any of this, though we have known about the development as its obviously closely related to our Torque based internal metaverse and is another spin off of bringing IBM into virtual worlds and games in general (which I think we can rightly claim to have set the ball rolling on :-) )

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69 Responses to “Powerup – A serious game out in the wild”

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    February 26th, 2008 at 23:30

    Out of curiosity, did you use a Torque content creator pack or purchase things on sites like Turbosquid?

  2. epredator Says:
    February 27th, 2008 at 10:43

    I think, though I would have to ask, that its a mix of purchased and licensed content and self created content.

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    February 29th, 2008 at 05:19

    [...] Leo en Eghtbar Powerup – A serious game out in the wild, un juego donde se combinan conocimientos de ciencia con la misión de salvar el planeta. La primera sorpresa al ir al sitio oficial donde se descarga es que existe una versión con opciones de accesibilidad. El juego es on line. multijugador desarrollado en un entorno de 3d. La historia comienza con “Hace cientos de años las naciones de nuestro planeta se dieron cuenta de que los efectos secundarios de la combustión de combustibles fósiles por energía fueron dañando la atmósfera y cambiaron el clima…” [...]

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