Serious Games

According to the promise on the front page of a website called "Social Impact Games," they have "now identified over 500 serious games."

You know about this Serious Game thing, I'm sure. There are, at least according to the newly indexed site:

Education + Learning Games
Public Policy Games
Political + Social Games
Health + Wellness Games
Business Games
Military Games
Advergames
Commercial (COTS) Games

That's enough games to make anyone want to take this new category of Serious Games very seriously, in deed. Like the people who run The Serious Games Initiative, for example. Look it up on Google for page after page of more examples of the seriousness of all this.

All I can say is that I hope it makes the world a little more fun, all this serious gameness. I know it can make learning more fun. And deeper. Pretty much despite what the serious gamers are learning about.