Abstract— While the serious game concept has considerably evolved in the last two decades, it still needs to be clearly differentiated from other types of artifacts. Thus, there is a degree of confusion about the relationship between serious games and other related applications such as simulators or the re-purposing of entertainment games within educational practices for most outside the domain. This article proposes a formal approach toward classifying Games, Toys, Serious Games, Serious
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Keywords : Formal definition, Health, Health Game, Serious Game, Serious Modding, Serious Re-purposing, Serious Toy, Simulator
In this article, we describe a pedagogical experiment aimed at understanding the motivation drivers for the involvement of game design students in the development of serious game projects. This experiment was developed as a case study for the assessment of specific measures and hypotheses towards involving students in the design of a themed serious game (non-violence). Website of ECGBL 2016 ECGBL Program Read Paper
Keywords : Serious game, Serious Gaming, Serious Diverting, Serious Modding, Learning, Game design, Non-Violence, Video game
En 2002, l’armée US propose America’s Army, un Serious Game qui correspondrait aujourd’hui à un “Call of Duty" ou “Battlefield”. Sauf que… America’s Army est diffusé gratuitement sur Internet, et téléchargé sans surprise par plusieurs millions de joueurs dans le monde !
Keywords : Serious game, Serious Gaming, Serious Diverting, Serious Modding, Level design, Game design
In French-speaking research, the expression ‘serious gaming’ is used in English in order to refer to the practice of diverting videogames aimed at three new, functional purposes: the diffusion of message(s), training and data collection. ‘Serious games’ are thus distinguished from ‘serious gaming’: while the end result may appear similar (combining games with educational purposes), serious gaming applies new functions a posteriori. To highlig
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Keywords : Serious Gaming, Serious Game, Serious Modding, Serious Diverting
GameDev Days 2015 Program: http://gamedev.ee/REGISTRATION AND COFFEE09:00 - 10:0009:15 - 10:00VLADIMIR FUNTIKOV (CREATIVE MOBILE)Opening speech10:00 - 10:30 KATRIN SAKS (BALTIC FILM AND MEDIA SCHOOL)Opening speech10:00 - 10:1510:15 LISSA HOLLOWAY-ATTAWAY (HÖGSKOLAN I SKÖVDE INSTITUTIONEN FÖR INFORMATIONSTEKNOLOGI)The Gamification of Vision in the Museum: designing affective learning for cultural heritage10:15 - 11:0010:30ANDRÉ BERNHARDT (INDIE ADVISOR)State o
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Keywords : Serious Gaming, Serious Game, Serious Diverting, Serious Modding