HigherEchelon’s Gaming & Simulation Team offers stellar end-to-end and feature/partial game development services for clients seeking deep expertise in serious games and virtual training development, particularly in military training, education, and sports performance domains.
Does your organization have a training requirement that is challenging, complex, intense, expensive, and/or potentially dangerous in the real-world situations they involve? Are you spending too much time and money on physical training that does not accurately reflect the training tasks required?
HigherEchelon builds Serious Games & Virtual Trainers to meet the needs of any industry in which realistic training is paramount to prepare for adverse environments and complex skillsets, including scenarios for:
We use modern commercial gaming technology including Unity and Unreal Engines to create game-based, virtual training products that delight users and solve common training challenges. Our serious games and virtual training apps are leveraged by clients ranging from NFL Teams to the U.S. Army to solve their live training challenges such as:
Our training solutions reduce the overall cost of your training and provide a fun, engaging, and effective experience for your users.
Sometimes in-person training isn’t possible or ideal. With life-like, immersive technology, you can create training experiences that augment existing training and provide multiple advantages over traditional methods including:
Serious Games are games with a primary objective of learning or practicing a skill, rather than a game designed for entertainment. They utilize some or all of the same techniques found in entertainment games – Serious Games can be story-driven, have objectives with win and loss criteria, and will use entertaining gameplay features to facilitate learning.
Virtual Trainers are realistic simulations of real-life training environments. While there may be some gamification (scoring, leaderboards), Virtual Trainers are less heavy on “gameplay” and feel less like a game than Serious Games.
HigherEchelon’s gaming and simulation work can be seen in high stakes training environments for groups ranging from professional athletes to soldiers. For example, HigherEchelon supports the Army Game Studio in the development of Serious Games & Virtual Trainers for U.S. Army soldiers and supports the development of America’s Army, a popular free-to-play first-person online game that was developed using the Unreal Engine.
Our developers have supported Army Game Studio in the development of many of these serious games and trainers:
HigherEchelon has the experience and team needed to create Serious Games & Virtual Trainers for your organization. We work with customers from conception through design, development, and delivery. Post-release, we will support your organization with proper implementation of the application.
We’d love to discuss your needs. Call us at 866-488-9228, email us at Solutions@higherechelon.com, or fill out this form for a free consultation.