{"id":132355,"date":"2015-06-17T07:21:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T05:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamestrategies.io\/blog\/what-is-a-serious-game\/"},"modified":"2024-11-01T17:15:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T16:15:41","slug":"what-is-a-serious-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamestrategies.io\/en\/blog\/what-is-a-serious-game\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Serious Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Serious games<\/strong> are precisely that; games that are \u201cserious\u201d or videogames<strong> whose purpose is to train more than to entertain<\/strong>. They have gained, and keep doing so, undeniable <strong>popularity<\/strong> since companies and institutions decided to implement them as part of their training programs some years ago. There are also a good number of individuals who want to develop their <a title=\"soft skills\" href=\"https:\/\/www.game-learn.com\/en\/resources\/blog\/soft-skills-you-have-to-work-on\/\">soft skills<\/a> with the methodology of the future. But, what do you <em>really<\/em> know about serious games? Have a look at this video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s_7Y24obdxY\" width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Serious games such as <a title=\"NEGOTIATION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION ONLINE COURSE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.game-learn.com\/en\/catalog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merchants\u00ae<\/a> or <a title=\"TIME MANAGEMENT AND PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY TRAINING COURSE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.game-learn.com\/game-based-learning-corporate-training\/serious-game-time-management-and-productivity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Triskelion\u00ae<\/a> (and shortly, <strong><a title=\"SERIOUS GAME IN LEADERSHIP AND TEAM MANAGEMENT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.game-learn.com\/game-based-learning-corporate-training\/serious-game-in-leadership-and-team-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pacific\u00ae<\/a><\/strong>), highlight the use of digital training programs aimed at professional use. This doesn\u2019t mean that serious games are not, or cannot be, entertaining. Discover more about <a title=\"Gamelearn\u00ae, world leader in the development of serious games for corporate training\" href=\"https:\/\/www.game-learn.com\/en\/resources\/blog\/awarded-20-best-training-companies-world-second-consecutive-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gamelearn\u00ae, world leader in the development of serious games for corporate training<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serious games are precisely that; games that are \u201cserious\u201d or videogames whose purpose is to train more than to entertain. They have gained, and keep doing so, undeniable popularity since companies and institutions decided to implement them as part of their training programs some years ago. There are also a good number of individuals who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":126061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What is a Serious Game? - Game Strategies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Serious games are precisely that; games that are \u201cserious\u201d or videogames whose purpose is to help us to train any skill more than to simply entertain us.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gamestrategies.io\/en\/blog\/what-is-a-serious-game\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What is a Serious Game? 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