Serious games development

Perth — September 19,2008 — Binary Culture propelled the WA Police department into Second Life today at a launch at Police headquarters. The launch went smoothly and plenty of mainstream media were attendance, and we had Stateline in the offices to film us creating the in-game ribbon cutting ceremony and guided tour.

We created the pavilion in close consultation with the idea's originator and main advocate, Police Assistant Director for Attraction and Marketing Trudi Angwin.

She said, "WA Police Attraction and Recruiting section is very impressed with the final model, and functioning, of the Second Life Police Recruitment Centre. It took a while for us to understand how things worked in Second Life, and the pavilion met our needs of being low maintenance, highly accessible, and functional without needing our ‘real’ staff to be logged in for long periods of time canvassing avatar inquiries."

We're pretty happy with Binary Culture's first foray into serious gaming as well.

For more information on the project check out our WA Police project page. You can also click here or on the images to see more screenshots of the pavilion and video of our in-game launch.

See also:

• "A Second Life chance on the beat in WA" (The West Australian, 19-Sep-08)