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Entertaining the similarities and distinctions between serious games and virtual heritage projects Erik Champion - 2015

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Author(s) : Erik Champion
Editor : Entertainment Computing 14 (2016) 67?74
Date : 2015
Lang : Lang


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Abstract

 

This article summarizes past definitions of entertainment, serious games and virtual heritage in order to discuss whether virtual heritage has particular problems not directly addressed by conventional serious games. For virtual heritage, typical game-style entertainment poses particular ethical problems, especially around the simulation of historic violence and the possible trivialization of culturally sensitive and significant material. While virtual heritage can be considered to share some features of serious games, there are significantly different emphases on objectives. Despite these distinctions, virtual heritage projects could still meet serious games-style objectives while entertaining participants.

 

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D. Djaouti, J. Alvarez, J.-P. Jessel, O. Rampnoux, Origins of Serious Games, in: M. Ma, A. Oikonomou, L.C. Jain (Eds.), Serious Games and Edutainment Applications, Springer, London, 2011, pp. 25–43. 



Keywords : Entertainment, Virtual heritage, Authenticity, Violence, Interaction design