There is simply an incessant stream of news about the military and serious games! Wow!

Moreover, the Army are coming up with new projects to serious looking at this new training technology. Interactive Entertainment Today reported that the US Army has founded a new project office for games that focuses on training simulators.

The new project office, Training and Doctrine Command’s (TRADOC) Project Office for Gaming (TPO Gaming), is part of TRADOC’s National Simulation Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. The office is headed by Col. Jack Millar as her director.

TPO Gaming’s purpose is to develop a toolkit that soldiers will be able to use themselves to create combat training scenarios. The are interested in the visualization of the technologies, rather than the entertainment part, and will focus on FPR and RTS games initially.

While there are plenty of war videogames available to everyday consumers, TPO Gaming doesn’t believe that any fill the requirements of a true simulation.

Millar said that aside from being immersive, the simulations should be “scalable, feature an intuitive interface, model behavior at the entity level, contain an after-action review capability and allow easy distribution.”

Although not all in the army agrees. Some prefers Commercial-off-the-shelf (OTS) games, and what they lack in depth or real-world applicability is made up for in convenience.

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