[games_access] Daedalic Developing Serious Game to Fight Illiteracy

[Sandra Uhling]

Hi Joshua,

that is a nice idea.

Maybe we should include these person in this discussion?

Claas Paletta
PR & New Business Manager 
Daedalic Entertainment GmbH
Workport Unit 2
Papenreye 53
22453 Hamburg
Germany 
Tel.: +49 40 43261272
Fax: +49 40 43261271
Mail: cp at daedalic.de
Internet: www.daedalic.de



Dipl.-Päd. Steffen Malo
Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung, 
Institutsteil Rostock Joachim-Jungius-Straße 11
18059 Rostock
Tel. +49 (0) 381 / 4024-128
Fax +49 (0) 381 / 4024-199
steffen.malo at igd-r.fraunhofer.de

Best regards,
Sandra




> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-
> bounces at igda.org] Im Auftrag von Joshua Caulfield
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 5. November 2009 15:17
> An: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
> Betreff: Re: [games_access] Daedalic Developing Serious Game to Fight
> Illiteracy
> 
> Dear Sandra,
> 
> Do you think this would make a good story for the IGDA newsletter?
> Would any of the folks on this list like to take a crack at putting
> together a 500 word article?  You can reference the press release or
> create the article whole cloth, but as I read these discussions, I
> think there are some really interesting things going on that the larger
> community might find interesting.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Joshua
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: games_access-bounces at igda.org on behalf of Sandra Uhling
> Sent: Wed 11/4/2009 4:51 PM
> To: 'IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List'
> Subject: [games_access] Daedalic Developing Serious Game to Fight
> Illiteracy
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> Daedalic is producing a game for people who have Dyscalulia, Dysgraphia
> and Dyslexia.
> This game is aimed to motivate them to learn more.
> 
> 
> "Daedalic Developing Serious Game to Fight Illiteracy
> Hamburg/Germany: February 12, 2009. Increasingly, games are recognized
> for their largely untapped potential to make complex things easy to
> learn: As part of the „Alphabit“- project for the development of an
> educational game for functional illiterates, Daedalic Entertainment is
> producing a serious game with the German Adult Education Association
> and the Fraunhofer Institute.
> „Early-on, we have made the development of serious games a part of our
> business. Daedalic Entertainment is focussed on producing and marketing
> games with a strong narrative bent.
> Such games are ideally suited for educational purposes and this
> exciting project takes us a significant step further in expanding this
> part of our business“, said Carsten Fichtelmann, Managing Director of
> Daedalic Entertainment.
> The game is intended to motivate adults that have severe problems
> reading, writing and calculating. In Germany alone, there are an
> estimated four million „functional illiterates“, yet only a fraction of
> them make use of the available educational programs. Aim of the project
> is to give affected persons new motivation to educate themselves and to
> give them the opportunity to train and improve their literacy in a
> playful manner.
> Partners in this project are the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer
> Graphics Research in Rostock, the German Adult Education Association,
> the German Institute for Adult Education in Bonn and the Adult
> Education Association of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern in Schwerin. The
> project is funded by the German Federal Ministery of Education and
> Research as part of the initiative for adult literacy and basic
> education.
> The completed game will be distributed for free and used in Adult
> Education courses across the country. It is also planned to be made
> available in job centers as well as via internet download.
> About Daedalic Entertainment
> Daedalic Entertainment develops and publishes high-quality computer and
> video games worldwide, focussing on the production of entertainment
> software with strong narratives. The company based in Hamburg, Germany
> offers international partners services in the fields of development,
> publishing and consulting. With its talented internal team and an
> expansive network of experienced service providers, Daedalic is the
> ideal partner for games marketing, development and publishing.
> Daedalic has successfuly marketed products like Ankh – Battle of the
> Gods, Benoît Sokal’s Sinking Island and eXperience112 and has won
> accolades, incl. two 2008 German Developer Awards for Edna &
> Harvey: The Breakout, its first internally developed title. Currently,
> the German company is developing the titles A New Beginning and The
> Whispered World, as well as additional new and innovative games.
> www.daedalic.de"
> 
> Source: Press release by Daedalic
> 
> 
> The project is part of: alphabit
> www.projekt-alphabit.de
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Sandra Uhling
> 
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