Serious Games Showcase & Challenge - SGS&C

01/01/2026

Cheers to a new year!

Grateful for our community of creators, educators, and game-changers. See you in 2026.

11/27/2025

Happiest of Thanksgivings to you and yours!

11/26/2025

🗺️ Point. Click. Speak.

Influent by lets you explore a 3D world where everything is tappable—learn the word and hear the native pronunciation. No rigid lessons, just discover-as-you-go with 500+ nouns/verbs/adjectives in 20+ languages.

🎮 Play it live at Interservice / Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference
🔗 https://sgschallenge.org/game/influent/
🎥 https://youtu.be/lNTpbY7T4Ck

Influent is a Language Learning Game focused on vocabulary acquisition and pronunciation that gives players the freedom to choose the words they want to lear...

11/26/2025

🧠 Personalized cognitive training, made playable! Life As A by the National University of Singapore turns real-life themes like gardening and driving into MATB-inspired mini-games — Tracking, Resource Management, System Monitoring, Communications — then runs them under time pressure to train divided attention, memory, and decision-making. With CURATE.AI, difficulty adapts in real time for older adults, rehab, and anyone building cognitive skills.

🎮 Play it live at Interservice / Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference
🔗 https://sgschallenge.org/game/life-as-a/
🎥 https://youtu.be/LS-zUTt1-Us

National University of Singapore Student  

11/25/2025

⚓ Navigate. Communicate. Lead under pressure.Surface Warfare Officer Reactive Decision Simulator (SWORDS) by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University puts midshipmen in real-time naval scenarios — from JOOD to Carrier Strike Group commander. Teams control multiple ships across connected screens, tracking contacts, coordinating fires, and making command decisions as navigation is scored and comms/leadership are tested.

🎮 Play it live at Interservice / Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference
🔗 https://sgschallenge.org/game/surface-warfare-officer-reactive-decision-simulator-swords
🎥 https://youtu.be/1om_VAe2cBo

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Student  

11/22/2025

📈 Plot a function. Cross the river.In Graph Navigation by IIT Kharagpur, you guide a character across a graph by building functions—preview the curve in real time, switch tools, and craft piecewise paths to hit each target x-coordinate without crashing. Feedback after each level helps you improve.

🎮 Play it live at Interservice / Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference
🔗 https://sgschallenge.org/game/graph-navigation/
🎥 https://youtu.be/ARDRj3BFwbQ

IIT Kharagpur Student  

11/21/2025

👣 Find your way—without sight. Wayfinder challenges players to navigate mazes using sound and haptics, simulating several forms of visual impairment to build empathy and sharpen non-visual perception.

🎮 Play it live at Interservice / Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference
🔗 https://sgschallenge.org/game/wayfinder/
🎥 https://youtu.be/rOT2ULOHCEM

N/A Business or Non-Profit Organization  

11/20/2025

🧭 Mission planning under pressure. FutureView by was built with USMC TBS to train amphibious operations, Well Deck operations, convoy ops, and EABO. Intelligent agents, instructor-friendly scenario tools, and expansive environments support realistic rehearsal and decision-making in uncertain conditions, all backed by cognitive-science research on accelerated learning.
🎮 Play it live at Interservice / Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference
🔗 https://sgschallenge.org/game/futureview-accelerated-learning-in-an-ill-defined-military-setting/
🎥 https://youtu.be/rMfls2xABJY

ACSILabs, Inc. Business or Non-Profit Organization  

11/20/2025

What if empathy could be practiced? Developed by for the VA’s Veterans Health Administration, this immersive VR training puts users in the roles of victim, bystander, and intervener to help recognize, respond to, and prevent sexual harassment — then builds confidence with immediate feedback.

🎮 Play it live at Interservice / Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference
🔗 https://sgschallenge.org/game/vha-sexual-harassment-prevention-vr-training
🎥 https://youtu.be/eraTNW2vTpk

Trailer for SGS&C 2025 Finalist Game

11/19/2025

🔥 Wildfires are getting more intense—but preparation saves lives.
Developed by a UC Santa Cruz student team with partners at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and local communities, this collection teaches evacuation, go-bag prep, fire spread, and home hardening through quick, focused games.

🎮 Play it at Interservice / Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference
🔗 More info: https://sgschallenge.org/game/wildfire-resilience-minigame-collection/
🎥 https://youtu.be/nL4CxDdrmnE

Trailer for SGS&C 2025 Finalist Game

11/18/2025

Design smart. Validate fast. In Dragonfly 2 by , a DAU training module, students build virtual vehicles under real constraints — budget, weight, performance — then test decisions in scenario gameplay to see if their design meets government specs.

🎮 Play it live at Interservice / Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference
🔗 https://sgschallenge.org/game/dragonfly-2/
🎥 https://youtu.be/4B514ddmMb4

Army Game Studio Government  

11/15/2025

Assemble a giant robot. Take on F0SS1L FU3LS.
In R-ECOMECH by UCF Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy, animal citizens form a citizens’ assembly: learn from an expert, debate clean-energy options, agree on a recommendation — then build a custom giant robot from your choices and face the climate crisis boss.
🎮 Play it live at Interservice / Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference
🔗 https://sgschallenge.org/game/r-ecomech/
🎥 https://youtu.be/Gj5YS-bxIes

Trailer for SGS&C 2025 Finalist Game