Serious Game Classification

TIMEMESH SELEAG Consortium (Portugal), Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (Portugal), 2011 Play it Now !

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Classification

SERIOUS GAME
(Edugame)

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Educative message broadcasting

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment
  • Education
  • Politics

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 12-16

Gameplay

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

timemesh.jpg TIMEMESH is an online, multi-language, multi-player, collaborative and social adventure game platform for sharing and acquiring knowledge of the history of European regions. Three game scenarios are availbale to play: the Maritime Discoveries, the Industrial Revolution and the Second World War.
In each scenario, the player notices that something is wrong with their current time period; E.g. Newspapers are in a different language. This is the trigger for a specific scenario action. The player then learns of a past event or sequence of events in history that somehow happened differently and changed history. He has now to go back and correct History.

Distribution : Free
Platform(s) : Browser (Flash)

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