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You are on your toes. A bomb explodes in a busy shopping street, leaving the injured requiring rapid assistance. Your task to take control of the situation. Don't worry it is not happening in real, but you are playing a video game. It is useful and interesting game and  it has a deadly serious purpose too.

This ‘virtual’ crisis, used in training emergency services workers, is part of a ‘serious game’, an emerging niche in video games, developed by UK-based TruSim – a subsidiary of the Blitz Game group.

In this game, as chaos ensues, the player must quickly fulfil a series of tasks – check to ensure his respiratory tracts are not blocked, make sure he has a pulse, and various other in-game tests to provide a diagnosis – before moving swiftly along to treat the other injured victims as efficiently as possible.

“It works in real time, so if you don’t take care of these casualties quickly enough, they will die,” said Mary Matthews, director of development at Blitz TruSim. “It’s pretty scary.”

Matthews said the game was developed in six months with the help of the Serious Games Institute (SGI) at the University of Coventry, and has been tested by several potential real-world clients.