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Muzzy Lane has been a leader in serious games since 2002, creating innovative, award-winning games, and developing technology to overcome many of the challenges unique to educational games

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Practice Marketing is the first in a series of 3D multiplayer business strategy games designed for McGraw-Hill Education's new line of digital learning products. A multiplayer simulation of the backpack industry, Practice Marketing enables students to put their marketing skills to the test in a fun and competitive, real-world environment.

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Muzzy Lane is partnering with Middlebury Interactive Languages (MIL) to create an innovative 3D language learning role-play game as part of MIL's online world language courses. The MIL courses will adapt the highly successful full-immersion formula modeled on the Middlebury College Language Schools for online delivery.

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PAST/PRESENT is a series of innovative 3-D games that engage middle-school students in social history. It is one of seven projects funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's American History and Civics Initiative to explore new ways to teach history and civics to middle and high school students using 21st Century media.

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ClearLab is a project to make our own line of compelling and innovative science games that can be used in the "classroom"... whether that's in a school, home or out in the field. Combining traditional and modern approaches to learning with commercially proven game mechanics, ClearLab games will show how valuable gaming can be when trying to learn, study and explore.

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International trade, religious and cultural strife, military campaigns, diplomatic negotiations... here, you control it all. MAKING HISTORY II: The War of the World gives players the power to take full control of any world nation, colonies, regions, cities, and military units during the time leading up to and during WWII.

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Lessons from the Last Ten Years with Game-Based Learning Last week, an interesting slideshow was posted on Slideshare.net by Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, CEO of Serious Games Interactive, titled "Important Lessons from the Last 10 Years with Game-Based-Learning." 25 slides long, I found it full of interesting insights, many of which ring true for this educational game designer. (I've embedded the full slideshow at the end of this post.) A few things jump out at me from this presentation: THE GOOD Many teachers are using game-based instruction. The presentation notes that very few teachers are dismissing games as effective instructional tools these days, and the majority of teachers are using them in one fashion or another. At Muzzy Lane, we're finding the question to be less "why should we do a game?" and more "how do we make a game that will be effective?" Furthermore, all the major educational publishers are taking game based learning very seriously, something that wasn't the case when we first entered this space.

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Muzzy Lane games are known for being immersive and fun. Our games have won multiple awards and competitions, the Making History series has expanded beyond its serious-game roots to become a successful commercial strategy-game.

Our Sandstone platform delivers multiplayer 3D games in the web browser, integrates with learning management systems and provides capabilities for tracking performance and linking to a variety of online resources. Our tools give us the flexibility to cost-effectively create innovative game mechanics that address the specific learning requirements of different subject areas and audiences.

Current designs being built on Sandstone range from an innovative multiplayer language-learning to unique predictive physics simulations for middle schoolers(developed as part of our own Clearlab Project), to challenging strategy games like our Making History series.

If you have a project to create, or a problem to solve, get in touch, and our experienced, talented, and collaborative team can make it happen - from expert interviews to design, development, and deployment.