Case Studies

Games for Learning Institute
Publisher: G4LI is supported by Microsoft Research and the Motorola Foundation

Pragmatic has partnered with the Microsoft Games for Learning Institute to provide our Leverage SDK and LeverageDev Portal as integral components in the ongoing research of how users learn through games.

Utilizing LeverageDev modules:

• User Authentication Module
• Statistics Module
• Performance Assessment Module
• Leverage VisualIQ Module

The multi-institute G4LI studies the educational use of digital games and investigates their socio-cultural, cognitive, and emotional impact. Pragmatic’s Leverage suite is being utilized by researchers and students to observe and analyze player behavior.

Microsoft Research is providing $1.5 million to the Institute. NYU and its consortium of partners are matching Microsoft’s investment, for a combined $3 million. Funding covers the first three years of the G4LI’s research, which will focus on evaluating computer games as potential learning tools for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects at the middle-school years (grades 6–8). The institute will work with a range of student populations, yet focus on underrepresented middle-school students, such as girls and minorities.

Housed at NYU, the Institute is a joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research, New York University and a consortium of universities including Columbia University, the City University of New York (CUNY), Dartmouth College, Parsons, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, the Rochester Institute of Technology and Teachers College.

For more information, please visit http://g4li.org

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Account Management Website (AMW) for America’s Army 3 and America’s Army 2
Publisher: US Army

Utilizing LeverageDev modules:

• User Authentication Module
• Statistics Module
• Performance Assessment Module
• Content Delivery Module
• Game State Module
• Leverage Analytics Module

Most visited website outside of Americasarmy.com for AA activity.

Location of individual player’s registration as well as their Personnel Jackets maintaining individualized America’s Army has become an international success with registered players coming from over 60 different countries. Since 2002, those registered players have logged over 4.5 billion player rounds, nearly 250 million player hours on Honor servers.

For more information, check out http://login.americasarmy.com. To find out how Pragmatic can implement this solution for you, contact leverage@pr-sol.com.

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Master Browser System (MBS) for America’s Army 3 and America’s Army 2
Publisher: US Army

Utilizing LeverageDev modules:

• User Authentication Module
• Statistics Module
• Performance Assessment Module
• Content Delivery Module
• Game State Module
• Leverage Analytics Module

Second most visited website outside of Americasarmy.com for AA activity.

AA-MBS™, the Master Browser System provides a near real-time view of the current game state. It offers extensive search options to view game servers, maps, heat maps, players and all associated attributes. Pragmatic’s web-based AAMBS provides advanced server filtering options and statistics displays by employing our proprietary attribute-based search engine.

Pragmatic also powers the in-game server browser for America’s Army. When AA-MBS is viewed alongside it, it provides gamers with the most complete view of accurate America’s Army game stats available anywhere.

For more information, check out www.aa-mbs.com. To find out how Pragmatic can implement this solution for you, contact leverage@pr-sol.com.

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Mission Depot for America’s Army 2
Publisher: US Army

Utilizing LeverageDev modules:

• User Authentication Module
• Statistics Module
• Performance Assessment Module
• Content Delivery Module
• Game State Module
• Leverage Analytics Module

Utilizing the America’s Army map building function provided a way for users to create original maps and content.

Created a unique voting system to establish the most popular maps, as well as community by allowing users to comment and contribute to improving features as well as acting as quality assurance team.

Once map was approved it was enabled on Honor servers.

For more information, check out www.aamissiondepot.com. To find out how Pragmatic can implement this solution for you, contact leverage@pr-sol.com.

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Title: Digitz678
Publisher: Collaborative effort led by Educational Testing Service (ETS) and Pragmatic

Utilizing LeverageDev modules:

• User Authentication Module
• Statistics Module
• Performance Assessment Module
• Content Delivery Module
• Game State Module
• Leverage Analytics Module

Designed to create an online environment for tweens that fosters meaningful improvements in math skills & attitudes.

Digitz678 is conceptualized as a free-to-access destination Web site for 10-13 year olds offering both social networking features, as well as rich and engaging games and activities with a mathematical focus. It will be a location young users visit for fun and friends, where content learning is perceived positively as a layer of engagement, a means by which to build relationships and grow personal status.

Through social networking, fun and engaging games & activities, and formative feedback channels that catch users at peak times of engagement, we hope to:

• Help users develop a deeper understanding of math concepts
• Build higher interest & engagement in mathematics
• Positively impact users' attitudes toward math and learning
• ETS and Pragmatic are actively seeking funding to support research and development efforts, as well as research partners who would like to share their game-based tools for use on the site.

We welcome participation by the following committed content partners:

• New Mexico State University
• New York University
• Drexel University
• The Math Forum

For more information, check out www.digitz678.com. To find out how Pragmatic can implement this solution for you, contact leverage@pr-sol.com.