Consultants & Analysts

TRAENTWORKS offers a wide range of solutions, services and competence in the areas of training and entertainment. Combining key aspects from the entertainment industries (like game-based technologies and entertaining motivation) with the domain know-how of professional training & simulation results in more efficient and enjoyed learning. To fulfill this vision, TRAENTWORKS develops product solutions and is operative in the two markets gaming and training & simulation and in the emerging market of serious gaming.

TRAENTWORKS is your professional partner for gaming, serious gaming and training & simulation solutions.

TRAENTWORKS helps customers to reach their goals. The following professional services are offered for the Serious Gaming market:

Product & Project Development:
- Product strategy analysis and development
- System analysis, design, architecture and engineering
- Product and project development
- Solution deployment
- System testing

Consulting:
- Serious Gaming integration strategy consulting
- Serious Gaming concept analysis and development
- Market and product strategy analysis and development
- Product and project management
- Requirement analysis and engineering
- Offer review (2nd opinion)
- Product and project management and assessment
- Engineering support
- Research & Development support
- Customer service and support

KNOLSKAPE (www.knolskape.com) is an award winning serious gaming and simulation software company focusing on management training, assessments and research. Since 2008, we have been delighting managers from Fortune 500 companies, students at top B-schools, top-notch academicians and recruiters with our simulation based products and services. We believe that the best way of learning and assessing capabilities is by doing. Keeping with this philosophy, we have been developing engaging, immersive and real life-like products and services such as business simulations, multimedia case studies, virtual learning tools. In 2012, we bagged the APAC HR Award for best simulation solution and the Red Herring Top 100 Asia award. KNOLSKAPE is a NASSCOM Top 10 Emerge Company in 2012

Custom Simulation Development
Gamification
Academic Computing

McCoy Multimedia develops serious games based training and education. McCoy Multimedia develops virtual environments and social simulations to provide the learner with an opportunity to interact with virtual characters and apply the knowledge they have acquired in dynamic scenarios.

• Analysis & Evaluation
• Audio, Visual & Multimedia
• Blended Learning Solutions
• Courseware Conversion
• Curriculum Development
• Distance Learning – Web & Computer-Based
• Education & Training Research
• Front End Analysis
• Instructional Systems Design
• Interactive Multimedia Instruction (IMI Level 1- 4)
• Language & Culture Training
• Leadership Training
• Maintenance Training
• Performance Assessment
• Scenario & Simulation Development
• SCORM & 508 Conformance
• Serious Gaming Development
• Vignette Design & Development

Spark Plug Games is a North Carolina-based games developer creating games for Web, PC/Mac, Sony PlayStation®3, Nintendo Wii™, Nintendo DS™, Sony PlayStation®Portable, Microsoft Xbox 360®, iOS and Android platforms.

Primary focus is on social games, casual games, serious games, and educational products using a combination of internal-developed technology and licensed middleware engines.

Historical development includes the creation of unique brand IPs as well as working with existing established brands including PAC-MAC, Puzzle Quest, and Dairy Queen.

Software development and serious games development for cross-platform deployment on PC, Mac, web, iPhone, iPad, Android Mobile, Android Tablet, and gaming consoles.

The Write Toole offers game design and narrative design consulting and services for serious games. With a track record in entertainment as well as the serious space, The Write Toole makes your game serious fun.

* Game design consulting
* Narrative design consulting
* World building
* Story and character development
* Dialog

We are a Serious Games and Gamification consultancy based in Cape Town, South Africa

Game Design
Game Development
Project Management
Research

Consultant for Serious Games

Evaluable Game Concepts, Certification, Research

Serious Game and multimedia solutions editor, Daesign is at the forefront of interactive pedagogy. Through an exclusive dialogue simulation technology (AVA – autonomous virtual actors), Daesign conceived training, awareness raising or assessment tools and programs whose aim is the development of behavioral competencies.

The principles of video games are used to create programs adapted to professional training needs to upgrade managers and employees performances.

Its history, the aggregation of cross-disciplines competences and its unique AVA technology give Daesign its originality and make the company a unique actor on the Serious Game market.

Serious Games conception : Creation of a specific training tool and follow-up from deployment to eventual face-to-face training sessions
Serious Games store : generic off-the-shelf serious games available via an annual subscription

We help companies grow in the education market, both K12 and Higher Education. Working with management we devise a two year growth strategy incorporating messaging, marketing, product, channel, and sales, and then help the company execute to and revise that plan based on market feedback.

Planning and execution of growth strategies in the education market.

As an award-winning full service provider of interactive and engaging E-Learning programs, 3D Training Simulations, Virtual Worlds, and Web design services, Designing Digitally, Inc. is dedicated to developing creative end to end design solutions for your company or organization.

Training Simulations
Virtual Worlds for Corporate training
3D Virtual Training Simulations
Custom Role Playing E-Learning
High end 3D modeling & learning experiences
Instructional Design

Systems Navigator is an independent software consultancy firm based in Delft, The Netherlands. Systems Navigator specializes in the design and creation of decision support solutions based on Operations Research technology. Our specific expertise is in using a combination of discrete event simulation and optimization for decision support models that can predict system performance, as well as can be used for operational decision making by means of planning and/or scheduling.

- Software delivery
- Consultancy services
- Serious gaming
- Training
- Webinars

Provide management and leadership training to Fortune 500 companies.

Executive Coaching
Team Development
Facilitation
Design and development of training programs

A central London law firm specialising in Intellectual Property with particular expertise in the field of Computer and Internet Law

We offer a broad range of IP and commercial advice from a legal perspective to our clients in media and the creative sectors.

We have a particular interest in the developing Serious Gaming industry and can assist with any relevant drafting and commercial negotiation of Computer and Internet contracts relevant to this sector

Aitheka was founded in 2010 to assist both local and international companies in creating their « serious game ».
We help you design your interactive solution that succeeds in promoting your brand, raise awareness in desired communities, and train your teams.

A/ Strategic Consulting including project management, digital communication and training for Companies interested in Serious Games

> Help Define client's needs, objectives and ressources.
> Create all relevant documentation.
> Search, identify and evaluate development partners.
> Manage Pre production phase.
> Approve game design, technical design, art documents.
> Plan and manage development efforts.
> Liaise between clients and development teams.
> Manage production phase.
> Identify and resolve conflicts.

B/ Assistance to Development studios and Video Game publishers in answering call for tenders for both private companies and administrations.
> Analysis of requests.
> Compliance to specific formats.
> Creative proposals.
> Creation of final documents.

With over 20 years experience in the fields of project management, experiential training design and delivery, the video games industry and serious game applications The Serious Games Consultancy provides a unique and essential blend of skills and services essential to success. Combining serious games subject matter expertise; hands-on video game development and production experience; training needs and solutions determination; and knowledge of areas of application including education, healthcare, defence, emergency services and corporate development TSGC cracks the Serious Games paradigm and focuses on the best way to achieve the most effective results. It’s not what it is, it’s what you do with it that counts.

Production
Application
Verification
Consultation
subject matter expertise consultancy
design
project management

vgAlt is a full service instructional design provider of games and instruction environments led by Dr. Brock Dubbels who specializes in learning and assessment with emphasis in social learning and cognition.
As the Principal Learning Architect at vgAlt, Brock has brought together teams to develop products, systems, and analysis for teaching and training, entertainment, virtual worlds, models and simulations, branding, publicity, and full-service web-presence iPhone apps, SMS, and social-networking–all informed by research-based design and data
collection for decision making.

Project Management, Psychometrics, Learning Analysis, Design. Return on Investment Analysis, Development.

Specialize in:
Educational research in cognitive psychology, curriculum and instruction, game design, discourse analysis, mixed-method design, theories of play and learning, assessment, instructional design, and technology innovation.

Consulting and market analysis primarily, with ideation, event creation, marketing research and production and bid management strong skills. I produced the first European conference dedicated to serious games for learning and health - running to 4 annual editions; brought the community together with trade/ networking association ANGILS and researched, wrote and published the first market report based on primary research data from all members of the supply and value chain.

Serious Games Report - I research and write reports. I have an existing report on the European market available. Not only is this existing data invaluable for market analysis by stake-holders across industry sectors but it stands as a beacon and valuable reference point to how the serious games community has progressed against the predictions made in the report. In fact it is more relevant today than when it was written.

Serious Games Conference Data & Services - A conference audio CD is available with all the day's presentations at annnual conference Apply Serious Games. I work with conference creators to help scope and tailor the conference to meet the needs of all stake-holders.

I provide services across market and business development and am a strong networker.

Consulting and market analysis primarily, with ideation, event creation, marketing research and production and bid management strong skills. I produced the first European conference dedicated to serious games for learning and health - running to 4 annual editions; brought the community together with trade/ networking association ANGILS and researched, wrote and published the first market report based on primary research data from all members of the supply and value chain.

Serious Games Report - I research and write reports. I have an existing report on the European market available. Not only is this existing data invaluable for market analysis by stake-holders across industry sectors but it stands as a beacon and valuable reference point to how the serious games community has progressed against the predictions made in the report. In fact it is more relevant today than when it was written.

Serious Games Conference Data & Services - A conference audio CD is available with all the day's presentations at annnual conference Apply Serious Games. I work with conference creators to help scope and tailor the conference to meet the needs of all stake-holders.

I provide services across market and business development and am a strong networker.

Blinzy Studios is a Game Studio settled in Barcelona, Spain. We create HTML5 and Unity3D games for smartphones, tablets and social networks. SGA Member.

- Serious Games Design.
- Serious Games production.

Ambient Insight is an international integrity-based market research firm that uses quantitative predictive analytics to identify revenue opportunities for global eLearning and Mobile Learning suppliers.

Ambient Insight principals are well-known competitive intelligence experts in the global learning technology industry. Ambient Insight was founded in 2004 by the original members of the Advanced Knowledge Engineering team that built the Microsoft Online Learning Institute (MOLI), the world's first international commercial eLearning business.

Ambient Insight has two lines of business: publishing quantitative syndicated reports and providing proprietary custom research to suppliers and private investment firms.

In our syndicated reports, Ambient Insight provides quantitative market research by customer segment (demand-side) and by product category (supply-side) based on our taxonomy and our proprietary Evidence-based Research Methodology (ERM). We developed ERM by modifying and refining industry-standard quantitative methods to reflect the unique characteristics of the learning technology market.

In our custom research, we have developed competitive intelligence, multi-year tactical roadmaps, product pipelines, revenue stream timelines, pricing models, merger and acquisition (M&A) profiles, and go-to-market strategies for a range of international clients. We have helped large and small organizations successfully launch new learning technology products and services.

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