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The Serious Games Initiative founded Games for Health to develop a community and best practices platform for the numerous games being built for health care applications. To date the project has brought together researchers, medical professionals, and game developers to share information about the impact games and game technologies can have on health care and policy.


The Body is a Game

Posted by Ben Sawyer on 06-09-26

One of the sessions at Thursday and Friday's Games for Health conference is a group meeting titled "The Body is a Game" looking at ways we can use the incredible imagery of the human body to fuel new ideas for games, education, science, health, etc.

This animation created for Harvard by Xvivo really does stir the mind at what games about the inner workings of cells, organs, etc. could draw from and the power of an interactive element to something as visual as this could have:

http://aimediaserver.com/studiodaily/videoplayer/?src=harvard/harvard.swf&width=640&height=520

Thanks to BoingBoing for the link.