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A Math Adventure Serious Game For Students With Special Needs @ Kickstarter

ATLT Games , creator of the math educational Serious Game Pi and The Lost Function , has started a Kickstarter campaign to add voice acting to its currently text-based storyline to help learners with special needs. The campaign began on July 29 and ends on August 27. Pi and The Lost Function is a 3-D algebra readiness adventure game that intervenes when it detects students are struggling with specific math skills. Currently, the storyline is text-based, and ATLT Games would like to add voice acting to the 3-D characters to assist learners with disabilities. The addition of voice over will help students with vision impairments, emotional/behavior disorders, dyslexia, autism, ADD/ADHD, struggling readers, and English as a second language (ESL/ELL). To add voice over technology, the Kickstarter campaign will help raise the $41,223 needed for the technology addition. To support the Pi and The Lost Function Kickstarter campaign, visit http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/at

Republished: Serious Games For Oil Exploration Hands-On Experience

Quest For Oil - A Subsurface Serious Gaming Experience Maersk launched mid-June a new "Serious Game" called Quest For Oil, developed by Serious Games Interactive in Copenhagen. With the free, world-wide distribution of the real-time strategy game, Maersk aspires to open up the oil business to everyone. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, Maersk is a global conglomerate with a variety of sectors within the transportation and energy industries. The Quest for Oil Serious Game is based on the Maersk Drilling and Maersk Oil units that are at the cutting edge of the upstream oil sector. Quest for Oil allows players to test their analytic and strategic skills while experiencing first-hand what it’s like to be on a drilling rig .  Drilling for oil - Step 1: Choose your drilling rig by browsing through characteristics and prices Along the way, players are introduced to the key challenges of the industry such as how to read earth layers and detect oil re