GIS and Gaming Resources

• Ola Ahlqvist's Geogame blog.
• Serious Gaming Technologies and Geospatial. Very Spatial podcast.
• Geospatial: Gaming and Visualization.  Vector One blog.
• IBM's "serious gaming" initiative has produced IBM CityOne, designed as part of the IBM Smarter Planet initiative. The game is designed to educate the player about complex systems and how they connect in a modern city.
• Much research has been published in scientific journals on the intersection of geospatial technologies and gaming, including
  • Simulation Model for Activity Planning (SMAP): GIS-based Gaming Simulation
  • Metaphor and Gaming and Access to Spatial Information
  • Exploring a Framework for Goal-Driven Collaboration through Serious Gaming
  • Generating Virtual Environments by Linking Spatial Data Processing with a Gaming Engine
  • A Concept Prototype for Integrated Gaming and Simulation for Incident Management
  • Playing with Automata. An Innovative Perspective for Gaming Simulation
  • Scholarly Civilization: Using 4X Gaming as a Framework for Humanities Digital Media
  • Collaborative Decisionmaking for Sustainable Urban Renewal Projects: A Simulation - Gaming Approach
  • Training Games and GIS
  • ParaWorld: A GPS-Enabled Augmented Reality Gaming System
  • GEOGAMES – A Fun-based Concept to Interest Grammar School Students in Spatial Sciences
  • An Evolving Simulation/Gaming Process to Facilitate Adaptive Watershed Management in Northern Mountainous Thailand
  • Serious Gaming for Sustainability Using Spatial Cyber Memory
  • Simlandscape: Serious Gaming in Participatory Spatial Planning
  • Building a Three-dimensional Geospatial Virtual Environment on Games Technology
  • Geographical Visualisation: A Participatory Planning Support Tool for Imagining Landscape Futures
  • Imagining the Future using 3D Geographical Visualisation
  • The Renaissance of Geographic Information: Neogeography, Gaming and Second Life
  • Neogeography, Gaming and Virtual Environments: Web 2.0, Mapping for the Masses and the Renaissance of Geographic Information
  • Engaging the Virtual Landscape: Serious Gaming Environments as Tools in Historical Landscape Reconstruction and Interpretation
  • Subject Matter Content Creation for Second Life Delivery: Teaching GIS in Second Life