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Serious games have been on the agenda for a while. Disruptive learning solutions<\/a> is a new technology company focussed that wants to take them one step further by creating video games for the business training marketplace. They are working in a number of areas including leadership and teamwork training. They created one of the first mobile games in medicine which is an emergency room interviewed Toby Coop who is the founder of that company to understand better how gaming could be used in education. While we were at it, he explained his strategy and his vision for the future of gaming in training<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

From Serious Games to Gaming as a Service for Education<\/h2>\n

So the idea is that you can teach people serious things through gaming, isn’t it?<\/b>
\nThat’s perfectly right. We’re beginning to realise that the gaming world is not just a means of entertainment. But what we’re starting to understand as well is that good design in the gaming world involves setting a series of challenges for the participants in such a way that they have to learn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cinq – Teamwork video game – is now available for testing at playcinq.com\/<\/a> (Register for Beta)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And in fact, coming from the bottom of the competitive side of the gaming world to the top requires a feat of training expertise which is the equivalent in the physical sports world.\u00a0<\/span>
\nYou’re based in Paris. And your product is called CINQ, which means five<\/b>
\nWhat you’re looking at is five collaborators, five members of the team who have to go and get something from a secret laboratory at the bottom of the building. But to do that they are given a minimum amount of information but enough to plan what they have to do. And they have to work through something like 40 to 50 obstacles that test their ability to collaborate, make rapid decisions, deal with failure and test their teamwork and leadership to solve problems.\u00a0<\/span>
\nSo how do you design a game like this? I suppose it’s bespoke for each kind of training that you do?<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>
\nYou have to understand the problem first. The technology is just a tool. We\u2019ve worked on the teamwork for over six years. We worked through trial and error. The first idea we came up with was to imagine somebody who has a view with the maze and that somebody has to guide somebody through the maze. But the other person is blind or has some sort of difficulty in the way that they think and they can’t see the overall picture.\u00a0<\/span>
\nJust take that principle and add five people and a set of predicaments in the game and suddenly you’ve changed the challenge. And the real difference is that you are not just sitting in a classroom where you’re just discussing theoretically how you’re going to lead the team or how are you going to manage how they work.\u00a0<\/span>
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