Serious Game Classification

Me Tycoon (MeTycoon) PLAYGEN (United Kingdom), PLAYGEN (United Kingdom), 2010 Play it Now !

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Classification

SERIOUS GAME

Market

This title is used by the following domains:

Education
Corporate

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
Age : 8-11 / 12-16 / 17-25 / 25-35

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

A social game-based approach to encouraging students to explore and develop their own virtual life, where their decisions directly affect their prosperity, achievements and happiness.

Young people do not often have the resources, help or opportunities to think about careers, find out about different types of jobs that they may not have previously considered, get to grips with transferable skills, or discover the changing nature of the jobs market and the potential areas of future growth.
What we did:

PlayGen developed ‘Me Tycoon’ in partnership with icould and support from Nesta. Me Tycoon is a social game in which students are encouraged to explore and develop their own virtual life, where their decisions directly affect their prosperity, achievements and happiness.

Key messages and issues explored within the game:

* Accept that life throws up challenges - what’s important is what you do next.
* Grab any opportunities for learning, developing skills and gaining experience.
* Manage money – nobody else will.
* Understand that other peoples experience can provide a rich source of learning.
* Discover a vast range of careers – new jobs are emerging all the time.
* Actively build networks.
* Learn that it’s common to have more than one ‘career’ in a working lifetime.
* Working will have a direct impact on lifestyle/ personal happiness and fulfilment.

The benefits:

* Gets students to think about careers and discover different types of jobs that they may not have previously considered.
* Provides an exciting online experience for players to get to grips with transferable skills and discover the career stories from iCould.com
* Allows students to discover the changing nature of the jobs market and the potential areas of future growth.
* Helping students better visualise and understand that today’s careers are not always achieved as a linear progression.

Distribution : Internet - Free
Platform(s) : PC (Dos) - PC (Linux) - PC (Windows)

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