2010 start met Goed Nieuws uit Nederland

Op 15 januari 2010 zal de officiële uitreiking plaatsvinden van het door PDMA-NL geproduceerde boek ‘Goed Nieuws Uit Nederland 2009’. xmediaworks is er trots op dat Sharkworld, als een van de goede innovaties uit Nederland, in dit boek wordt vermeld.

Bent u geïnteresseerd in deze bijeenkomst, dan kunt u zich nog aanmelden via de website goednieuwsuitnederland.nl.

Buy Sharkworld! It’s available!

Play Sharkworld? It’s finally available!
Do you want to play Sharkworld? At home? Or with your colleges at work. That’s possible know. The only thing you need is a internet connection. Sharkworld works on all computersystems.

Price € 150,- ex VAT

About Sharkworld – a project management game.

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Sharkworld for HR managers and project management training companies.
xmediaworks can help you how to use Sharworld in your curriculum. If you are interessed in using Sharkworld for your training program, please contact us.

Sharkworld – Best Game Concept Accenture Innovation Award 2009

Another price! This time the ‘Best Gaming concept’ van Accenture innovation awards 2009.
Granted to us in Amsterdam yesterday. Thank you Accenture!

Sharkworld wint Japan Prize 2009!

Sharkworld received the Japan Prize 2009 in the category ‘continuing eduction’ from the Governor of Tokyo Prize.

For more information please read the Japan Prize 2009 website

Thinking outside the waterbox – part 2

Nederland is goed in water. Dat weten wij, maar weet de rest van de wereld dat ook?
Een groep enthousiaste pioniers in en rond de watersector besloot dat het tijd was voor nieuw elan, voor dromen en daden. Nederlandse waterexpertise en kennis verdient een plek vooraan in de etalage, wereldwijd. Innovatieve ideeën, technologieën en proeftuinen verdienen ruimte zodat we Nederlandse expertise kunnen tonen en ontwikkelen.

De partners van DDD2012 zoeken graag aansluiting met de creatieve sector, met mode en reclame, met design en gaming, met theater en film. Om inspiratie op te doen en om het project een creatieve, speelse twist te geven. Daarmee ontstaat een unieke samenwerking tussen twee van de in totaal zes ‘sleutelgebieden’, die volgens het kabinet ‘de pijlers van de BV Nederland’ vormen. Deze case ‘Water en Creative Industries’ biedt de creatieve industrie ook de kans om te laten zien waartoe zij in staat is als ze zich organiseert en hiermee een tegenreactie te geven op de kritische evaluatie van de Commissie Scheepbouwer. DDD2012 biedt een uitgelezen mogelijkheid om nationaal en wereldwijd de kwaliteiten van zowel de watersector als de creatieve industrie neer te zetten.

De creative tour is in:
* Amsterdam: 29 september 2009 Pakhuis De Zwijger
* Eindhoven: 20 oktober 2009
* Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek: 27 oktober 2009

Meer informatie: www.ddd2012.nl

Dutch Games Go Global – Keulen

From 19 till 23 August 2009 the GamesCom event took place in Keulen. Many game companies from the Netherlands presented their latest games at the Dutch Pavillion. The Dutch newsagency RTL made a report (Dutch only)

Watch the trailer ‘Dutch Games Go Global’

De mind-map-metrokaart in Madurodam

The foundation Kennisnet is a public ict support organization in the Netherlands. For one of the programs concerning the use of multi media in education, xmediaworks has developed a ‘mind-map-metro card’ which represents the experiences of the participants.

Have a look at the mind-map-metro card (Dutch only)

Thinking outside the Waterbox

At the 5th World Water Forum in Instanbul this March the Dutch Water Platform (NWP) organised a session about watermanagent and gaming. xmediaworks presented a keynote on how serious gaming can inspire and contribute to the watermanagement sector.

For more information see blog of AKVO.org.
A interview with a United Nations reporter IrinNews.org
And the blogspot from Laika about watergames.

Twitter fountain @ world water forum

Many people Twittering from World Water Forum in Istanbul, Turkey.

‘Sharkworld goes China’ @ BODW in Hong Kong

Last December xmediaworks visited the Business of Design Week in Hong Kong. The Netherlands was partner in this event and it was a great opportunity to explore possilibities and meet the Open Minds in Hong Kong.
More information Business of Design Week at the website of BODW

Sharkworld wint European Innovate Games Award en Dutch Game Award

The project management game Sharkworld has won the prestigious European Innovative Game Award.

The EIGA is hosted by the Ministry of Economics, Transport, Urban and Regional Development of the region Hessen in Germany in cooperation with the European Commision. The award ceremony took place on 6th November 2008.

That same day Sharkworld won the Dutch Game Award for best Serious Game.

Missie Wadlandis in ‘Reis om de wereld in 80 klikken’

Marc Buma has written a nice book about travelling around the world in 80 click’s with Google Earth. Mission Wadlandis is also mentioned in it. Check Marc’s weblog (Dutch only) :

uitreiking InstalAward 2008

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Seminar – Nut en noodzaak van serious gaming in uw

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xmediaworks @ Gameplaces.de Frankfurt

xmediaworks @ Gameplaces.de te Frankfurt

On May 26th Joke Witteveen en Carla Hoekendijk presented at the Gameplaces conference in Frankfurt .

For more information about the programm see www.gameplaces.de

10 Tips voor multimedia in overheidsdienstverlening

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“Missie Wadlandis”, serious game over het waddengebied, genomineerd voor de World Summit Award.

Missie Wadlandis is nominated for the World Summit Award 2007 in de category E-Science.

The World Summit Award (WSA) is a global initiative to select and promote the world’s best e-Content, started in 2003 in the framework of the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). This is done through national contests, a global contest, held every 2 years, and numerous content-focused national and international conferences and workshops – the WSA Road Show.

WSA is an invitation project and a global hub for everyone, who sees the crucial importance of excellent e-Content creation within the new Information Society. As of today, 168 countries are actively involved in WSA. The WSA was held in Venice in November 2007.

Serious game is geen standaard IT-klus

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Games als communicatiemiddel – meer dan een spelletje

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