MEDIA
UNM Fine Arts Press, 1/15/2020
“Nuclear Science and Security Consortium (NSSC) Undergraduate Jake Tibbetts and the Project on Nuclear Gaming were awarded Best Student Game at the 2019 Serious Games Showcase and Challenge (SGS&C) for their work on the online game SIGNAL.”
‘SIGNAL’ WINS BEST STUDENT GAME
US Department of Energy & Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1/6/2020
“A wargame developed by University of California, Berkeley students, with a helping hand from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) researchers, recently garnered first place at an international conference.”
‘SIGNAL’ WINS BEST STUDENT GAME AT THE SERIOUS GAMES SHOWCASE & CHALLENGE
I/ITSEC Press Release, 12/5/2019
“The 2019 Serious Games Showcase & Challenge (SGS&C) announced this year’s winners of the annual serious games competition at an awards ceremony at the conclusion of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC). Twenty-five finalists, chosen from the original entries submitted in late summer, competed for awards in several categories.”
‘SIGNAL’ NAMED FINALIST FOR THE SERIOUS GAMES SHOWCASE & CHALLENGE (SGS&C)
SGS&C Press Release, 10/15/2019
“The Serious Games Showcase & Challenge (SGS&C) is the premier venue for recognition of excellence in the field of Serious Games development. Since 2006, SGS&C has helped foster creativity and innovation in Serious Games as part of NTSA’s I/ITSEC Conference held in each year in Orlando, Florida.”
SCIENTISTS WANT YOU TO PLAY A VIDEO GAME TO HELP THEM UNDERSTAND NUCLEAR WAR
Motherboard (Tech by Vice), 09/30/2019
“‘SIGNAL’ is an interesting, if flawed, multiplayer game that tries to simulate decision-making in the high stakes scenario of nuclear war for research purposes.”
SANDIA UNM INTERNSHIPS TEACH GAME DEVELOPMENT
Albuquerque Journal, 06/24/2019
“As part of the Sandia internship, Valdez worked as the lead artist on SIGNAL, a new online experimental war game developed in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory through the Project on Nuclear Gaming.‘”
COULD A VIDEO GAME HELP AVERT NUCLEAR WAR?
Talk Media News, 06/11/2019
“Sheryl Hingorani of Sandia National Laboratories is one of the lead investigators at UC Berkeley’s Project on Nuclear Gaming and says replayability is part of what sets video games apart. ‘The once-a-year play through of one specific scenario is not enough.'”
CAN DATA-RICH WAR GAMES IMPROVE DECISIONS?
GCN, 06/03/2019
“In the game, players ‘signal’ their intent to build up civilian and military infrastructure or to launch a cyber or nuclear attack and then negotiate trades and agreements with other players to deter attacks in an escalating conflict.”
UNM SANDIA INTERNSHIPS PREPARE GRADS FOR CAREERS IN NON-ENTERTAINMENT GAME DEVELOPMENT
UNM Newsroom, 06/01/2019
“As games get more complex, we can see correlates between the game world and the real world.“
UC BERKELEY RESEARCHERS DEVELOP ONLINE GAME TO STUDY NUCLEAR ESCALATION
Daily Californian, 05/29/2019
“SIGNAL gathers its data through periodic ‘open-plays,’ or windows during which players can more easily match with the server.“
NUCLEAR CONFLICT RESEARCHERS WANT YOU TO PLAY THIS GAME
Futurity, 05/10/2019
“Researchers designed the game to explore how various weapons capabilities, such as low-yield, high precision nuclear weapons, may affect the behavior of different actors in an escalating global conflict.”
SCIENCE OF NUCLEAR SECURITY LETS YOU WIN THIS STRATEGY GAME
Medical Daily, 05/08/2019
“Are you a fan of video games that involve quick thinking, strategic smarts and problem solving?“
NEW ONLINE STRATEGY GAME ADVANCES THE SCIENCE OF NUCLEAR SECURITY
Berkeley News, 05/07/2019
“Love military strategy games like Risk and Diplomacy? Try SIGNAL, a new online game that lets you satisfy your appetite for virtual global domination while simultaneously helping researchers understand the risks of real-world nuclear conflict.“
BRINGING OUT THE SCIENCE OF WARGAMES
Berkeley Engineering, 05/07/2019
“A first-of-its-kind online game, released publicly today, is poised to revolutionize the field of wargaming.“
CALLING GAMERS: FUTURE NUCLEAR SECURITY EXPERTS TRAIN WITH SANDIA-DESIGNED GAME
Berkeley Engineering, 03/14/2019
“The next generation of nuclear security experts is being trained in an exciting new way — by playing a first-of-its-kind war game Sandia helped design.“
BENEFITS OF NEXT-GENERATION WARGAMES
Homeland Security News Wire, 01/22/2019
“The researchers trace the history of wargames, discuss how wargames have been used in fields outside of military strategy and outline how scholars are increasingly looking to games as a source of research data, particularly when observational data is unavailable.”
RESEARCHERS ADD DATA SCIENCE TO ART OF WARGAMES
SIGNAL Magazine, 01/10/2019
“The platform also allows for large, quantitative analysis of game outcomes in a multiplayer context, tracks demographic data and automatically collects data in real time. It will ultimately allow researchers to more fully investigate complex national security issues, Reddie states in an LLNL announcement.”
POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF NEXT-GENERATION WARGAMES
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 12/21/2018
“What you could do with these traditional wargames was generate process-oriented insights. Now we can put these new wargames into an online platform and for the first time carry out quantitative analysis on a large dataset.”