Resilience Minigames
With support from the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health & Traumatic Brain Injury, the serious game, “Walk in my Shoes” is a joint-effort production project of Novonics Corporation and the UCF RETRO Lab. The objective of this work is to help prepare deploying soldiers for the myriad of psychological challenges they will face [...]
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Digital ECALC
SURG Digital ECALC is an interactive, instructor-led presentation. It is a cost-effective group intervention for college students that operates within the media literacy framework. The purpose of this project is to expose myths about alcohol and educate students about expectancy effects and drinking in a continuing effort to decrease student drinking and make them more [...]
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DAU Courseware
Defense Acquisition University is the largest corporate training university, specializing in defense acquisition courses. DAU’s current focus is incorporating game-based training. RETRO has been working with DAU on several projects to develop lightweight flash games for their courseware.
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Game-Based Training
The Office of Naval Research takes great pride and interest in their sailors in many ways such as funding a massive training movement called Capable Manpower. UCF RETRO Lab has been subcontracted by Raytheon BBN Technologies to test, evaluate, and provide quantified research findings about the effectiveness of game-based training.
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Guardian Angel
Guardian Angel is one of many grants awarded in 2008 to various educational organizations from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop games for health. The proposed effort of Guardian Angel seeks to leverage game-based technologies to develop an effective, motivating practice environment for one treatment that relies heavily on the acquisition and maintenance of [...]
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Lunar Quest
Lunar Quest is a Massive Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) for the PC that puts players in a large, persistent multiplayer game world set on the Earth’s moon. Players assume the role of lunar explorers, builders, and scientists who lead and guide humanity’s efforts to colonize of the moon.
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