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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.


G4H 2006: Pulse!! First Person Health Care Simulation

Posted by Peter Smith on 06-09-29

If you don’t know about Pulse!! it is a game being developed by BreakAway Games in conjunction with Claudia Johnston at the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. It is being funded by the Office of Navy Research, and it is obvious they have spent their money well. After about a year the game is really starting to take shape. Doug Whatley of BreakAway Games showed a demo in which the player can interact with any object in a perfect representation of the Trauma Center in Bethesda MD. One of the best features is the ability to look through tubes and bottles to determine liquid levels and flows. While parts of the game are a bit rough around the edges overall the game is looking quite nice.