VSTEP

VSTEP

"VSTEP B.V." is a serious game developer located in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and one of the leading developers in the European serious games industry.

History

VSTEP was founded in 2002 by four experienced entrepreneurs. VSTEP currently has 30 staff members as well as a network of subcontractors. Since its founding, VSTEP has developed and completed over 30 simulation and training projects, giving it a leading position in the European serious games industry.

In 2005, Fortis Venturing became a shareholder in VSTEP to accelerate their growth in the serious games market.cite web|publisher=Fortis Venturing|url=http://www.fortis.com/press/info/PRS_02062005_NL_ALL.pdf|title=Fortis Venturing investeert in verkeersveiligheid/Fortis Venturing invests in traffic safety]

On March 26, 2008, the Dutch Ministry of Economics awarded VSTEP a prize for "Serious gaming and simulation for a beter safety". [cite web|publisher=FOK!Games|url=http://games.fok.nl/news.php?newsid=24301|title=VSTEP wint Serious Gaming-prijs]

Serious games

VSTEP has made over 30 simulation and training games, including Scenario Training-software, Procedure Training-software and Training Simulators. The most well-known serious games from VSTEP are the Ship Simulator-series.

Among their clients, VSTEP has the Royal Netherlands Navy, Rotterdam Harbour company, Sea harbour Police Rotterdam, Amsterdam county, Royal Boskalis Westminster, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fairmount Marine, Falck/Nutec Global Safety, and others.

List of serious games developed by VSTEP

* Ship Simulator-series
* RescueSim-series
* DriveZone drive simulator
* Firefighter simulator

Video games

In addition to the mass market Ship Simulator 2008 game, VSTEP are developing a fire-fighting PC and console game based on their training products produced for Fire services in the Netherlands. [cite news |url=http://www.vstepoffice.nl/vstep2006/download/Dag.nl.Serious.Games.18102007.pdf | title = Serious games: Aangenaam én nuttig | work = Dag.nl |date=2007-10-18 |accessdate=2008-06-23 ]

References

External links

* [http://www.vstep.nl/ Official VSTEP website]
* [http://www.mobygames.com/company/vstep-bv VSTEP on MobyGames]
* [http://www.cultuureneconomie.nl/_pdf/Marktverkenning_serious_games.pdf The Dutch Ministry of Economics on serious games, including VSTEP]


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