GeoCommander
By US Navy SPAWAR Systems Command
Government Category
2008 Best Serious Game Government Category
Skills and Ideas Taught: Geo-location/direction finding principles and applications.
Goal or Challenge: Players improve understanding of national and tactical net-centric geolocation operations focusing on scientific geolocation tactics and techniques.
Primary Audience: Department of Defense geolocation operators and mission planners.
Assessment Approach: The game has an actual outcome score that measures how fast, efficiently and accurately players can perform geolocation operations. There is also a knowledge pre and post-test on geolocation operations that has been
approved by the Navy to give the final metric.
Description: GeoCommander addresses the problem of accurate Geo Location of hostile forces supporting the Global War on Terror. The game space is a fictional environment based on accurate science and a convergence of industry and military expertise to create a state-of-the-art instantiation to support real-world, serious problems.
Game Engine: Whatif Productions LLC WorLd Processor®
Operating System: Windows
Platform: Personal computer
Special Hardware: None