New Serious Games project, INVEST, kicked off in the CENTRIC office last month. The kick off meeting was a success, and showed great promise for the project and future collaboration with our technical advisor on the project. The meeting involved introductions, summarising project aims and identifying how best to move forward with the project. The next stage of the project will focus on recruiting end users and gathering end user requirements for the system. INVEST aims to create a virtual reality based serious game to train LEA’s and first responders. The current objective of the game is to provide a cost effective, multi-agency (collaborative), public order training platform. The project will put emphasis on the validation of the game as a viable training tool. Although this is the current direction of INVEST, the project is still in the early stages and could be subjected to changes once the project joins with end users who can help to advise and direct the project towards area’s that they feel would benefit the most.
