Serious Games

Latest Projects

• VBS1™ Integration with JCATS for Canadian Forces
• Content Creation for Army Simulation Centre
• Implementation of Immersive Group Simulation for Defence Research and Development Canada
• Prototype HLA Integration with Microsoft Flight Simulator X™
• Integration of X-Plane into HLA Federation (product to be released soon)

Introduction

Acron is leading the way in Serious Games development and integration services.  Serious Games is an emerging technology area that uses Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) gaming technology in serious training applications.  Many commercial games are already used for purposes other than entertainment including urban planning, medicine, conflict resolution, first responders, education and defence to name a few. 

With the revolution in PC computer graphics hardware and software, high fidelity simulation is no longer in the domain of multi-million dollar simulation and visualization systems.  The low cost of COTS gaming technology also brings it within reach of most organizations. 

Integration into Existing Synthetic Environments

Using custom developed software or LVC Game™, Acron is able to integrate COTS gaming technology into a DIS, HLA 1.3 or IEEE 1516 environment.  There are limitations depending upon the game infrastructure, but generally interoperability can be achieved for some form of interaction with entities and objects as long as the game API is open and supports such interactions.

Content Creation

Acron is able to develop complex scenarios for your target gaming platform, including building new 3D objects, terrain and interactions.   Our former Military and Government staff can talk your language and have field experience to draw upon to create the training scenario you require. Acron is also able to provide terrain and object conversion services to the target platform and can work with OpenFlight databases and terrain source data such as DTED and VMAP.

Hardware Integration

Acron can build hardware for your serious games applications from simple input devices and weapons systems to full vehicle mock-ups, cockpits and simulators.  

Federation Management

Our staff are experienced in using the FEDEP and SEDEP processes to formulate the best possible solution for the creation of Synthetic Environments.  We have used this process in Serious Games implementations as well to ensure that the delivered solution meets or exceeds the customer expectations.

Unparalleled Experience

Our CEO, John Nicol initiated Serious Games into the New Zealand Army as far back as 1999 with a series of exercises that utilized well known commerical first person "shooters", UbiSoft Rainbow Six ™ and Novalogic Delta Force ™.  He also worked with the developer of the tactical game, TacOps, to develop a New Zealand version, which became the first enterprise licence granted to any country.  Subsequently versions were made for the Australian Army, US Marines and others.

Existing Clients

Acron already has Serious Games clients in the Canadian Department of National Defence, including Defence and Research Development Canada and the Canadian Army.