Gaming and the Game Collections: Games in Education

Organization of educators and scholars who explore how games affect our society, and how they can be integrated into learning environments. Hosts the yearly GLS Conference in Madison.

Resources for educators who wish to use the game Minecraft in their classrooms. Educators can purchase the game at a discounted price through this website.

Wiki all about the educational initiatives by users in Second Life.

The SGS has been designed to bring together the cutting edge companies, institutions and individuals researching on and developing Serious Games. We focus on helping members in connecting and benefiting from the wide range of resources available in the Serious Games space.

Sinespace is a multi-user simulation engine available free on a public grid and on a paid license basis for private grids.

The platform can be accessed through PC, Mac, Linux, VR headsets, WebGL and Mobile.

It is used by consumers, developers and enterprise customers who use it to build, publish and participate in rich, complex, immersive, multi-user spaces.

Create easy to make point and click games and virtual tours for PC and handheld devices.

Free program designed to teach computer programming in a 3D game environment. Available for middle school, high school, and college level students.

Create interactive games and tours that integrate photos and videos. Excellent for games relating to historical events. Games are playable on the iPhone and iPad.

This web-based game allows students to not only play games, but to design their own and play games their friends have designed. Free version and premium version available.

This program can be used to create motion sensing games that run on Windows 7 PCs with the Microsoft Kinect.

Create games on the Xbox or PC. Interface is icon-based to make it easy for young children to create games.

"Pixel Press is an entirely new breed of social gaming that enables anyone to create and share video games, simply by drawing."

Design your own more complex RPGs (role-playing games). Includes a large catalog of graphics and sounds.

Create art, sound, animation, games, and stories that can be shared on the Scratch website.

"Superpowers is an HTML5 development environment for making 2D and 3D games.
It can be extended with plugins and lets you collaborate in real-time."