Tygron
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Tygron Serious Gaming is a serious game
developer
located in The Hague
, The Netherlands
. It specializes in bringing real-life complex management challenges that have multiple actors with unique tasks and different interests into a ‘multiplayer serious game’, making use of modern game technology.
Tygron was founded in 2005 by Maxim Knepflé and Jeroen Warmerdam as a serious gaming and media company. Since then, the focus of the company has moved away from the media and has narrowed towards serious gaming. The main focus in 2006 was the production of SimPort
http://www.simport.eu, a multiplayer
management game, in which teams of players collaborate to create a major international port
. Partnership with, among others, the Delft University of Technology has enabled the company do research and development. Since 2008 Tygron focuses its efforts mainly on the Watergame and SimPort
.
Serious game
A serious game is a game designed for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment. The "serious" adjective is generally prepended to refer to products used by industries like defense, education, scientific exploration, health care, emergency management, city planning, engineering, religion,...
developer
Video game developer
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located in The Hague
The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
, The Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
. It specializes in bringing real-life complex management challenges that have multiple actors with unique tasks and different interests into a ‘multiplayer serious game’, making use of modern game technology.
Tygron was founded in 2005 by Maxim Knepflé and Jeroen Warmerdam as a serious gaming and media company. Since then, the focus of the company has moved away from the media and has narrowed towards serious gaming. The main focus in 2006 was the production of SimPort
SimPort
SimPort-MV2 is a computer-supported construction and management simulation game that mimics the processes involved in planning, equipping and exploiting the Second Maasvlakte in the Port of Rotterdam...
http://www.simport.eu, a multiplayer
Multiplayer game
A multiplayer video game is one which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time. Unlike most other games, computer and video games are often single-player activities that put the player against preprogrammed challenges and/or AI-controlled opponents, which often...
management game, in which teams of players collaborate to create a major international port
Port
A port is a location on a coast or shore containing one or more harbors where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land....
. Partnership with, among others, the Delft University of Technology has enabled the company do research and development. Since 2008 Tygron focuses its efforts mainly on the Watergame and SimPort
SimPort
SimPort-MV2 is a computer-supported construction and management simulation game that mimics the processes involved in planning, equipping and exploiting the Second Maasvlakte in the Port of Rotterdam...
.
Serious games
- SimPortSimPortSimPort-MV2 is a computer-supported construction and management simulation game that mimics the processes involved in planning, equipping and exploiting the Second Maasvlakte in the Port of Rotterdam...
- Create your own version of the next world Port. - Watergame - Game about spatial planning and water management.