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Publication type : Article
Author(s) : Susi, T., Johannesson M., Backlund P.
Editor : Technical Report HS- IKI -TR-07-001 School of Humanities and Informatics University of Skövde, Sweden
Publication date : 2007
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Description

This report discusses some issues concerning serious games, that is, (digital) games used for purposes other than
mere entertainment. The starting point is the serious games concept itself, and what the actually means. Further,
serious games allow learners to experience situations that are impossible in the real world for reasons of safety,
cost, time, etc., but they are also claimed to have positive impacts on the players’ development of a number of
different skills. Subsequently, some possible positive (and negative) impacts of serious games are discussed.
Further, some of the markets such games are used in are considered here, including, military games, government
games, educational games, corporate games, and healthcare games. This report also identifies some (mainly
academic) actors in the North American and the European serious games market. This report is part of the
DISTRICT (Developing Industrial Strategies Through Innovative Cluster and Technologies) project: Serious
Games Cluster and Business Network (SER3VG), which is part of the Interreg IIIC Programme.

Website : http://www.his.se/PageFiles/10481/HS-IKI-TR-07-001.pdf

Keywords : Serious game

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