Expertise
Creative
A Fusion of Experience and Unique Creative Ability
If you are a potential Ballyhoo client, it is likely that you have spent years, or decades, perfecting your knowledge of your field and its challenges, and as a consequence, you have a very good idea of what it would take to train others to reach your level of knowledge and skill – hopefully more quickly than you did so yourself.
That’s where we come in. Becoming an “instant expert” on a new subject is a job requirement for any successful game developer, whether they develop commercial games, serious games, or both.
Ballyhoo core team members have been instrumental in the creation of many successful, and very creative, commercial strategy games, ranging from the original Civilization (MicroProse) to the more recent Rise of Nations (Microsoft) and Ubisoft’s The Settlers: Heritage of Kings. We also have extensive experience in the creation of seriously successful strategy games, including BreakAway’s Incident Commander, a game currently being distributed by the National Institute of Justice that teaches the Incident Command System (ICS), and Code Orange, a training game created for the Washington Hospital Center’s Simulation and Training Environment Lab (SiTEL: www.sitel.org) that teaches the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS). Ballyhoo core team members are currently working with SiTEL on an improved version of this product.
While at BreakAway, Ballyhoo members were part of the mosbē™ team. mosbē™ is a real-time, operational-level wargame created for use by the U.S. Army, and the Integrated Gaming System and Entropy-Based Warfare Model, an operational-level simulation and toolset used extensively by the U.S military, including the U.S Army’s Training and Doctrine Command, Office of the Secretary of Defense - Net Assessment, National Defense University, NATO War College, and Joint Forces Command.
Working with Ballyhoo
Our unique blend of decades of experience with commercial games, combined with extensive experience in the creation of serious games for homeland security, defense, and health, gives Ballyhoo credentials that are rarely found elsewhere. In summary, we can offer:
- Over 100 years and more than 50 games of collective experience
- Topflight designers, 3-D programmers, and artists
- Strong commitment to serious games
- Prior experience in creating simulations for defense, homeland security, and healthcare
You know your job. You know its challenges and requirements. And you also know that imparting all of your knowledge to a rookie lieutenant, a medical intern, or an officer who may have just taken his first street patrol can take years – years they don’t have, when lives can be at stake.
We don’t know your job – yet. But what we do know is how to make games for training that are far more compelling to their users than classroom lectures, books, and Power Points. Putting your expertise to work alongside ours is how Ballyhoo will make training games that help your instructors teach faster and more effectively.
