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  • Serious games continuum: Between games for purpose and experiential environments for purpose

    Author(s)
    Marsh, T
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Marsh, Tim
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    While many categorizations and definitions have attempted to elucidate the elusive term serious games, we are still some way off formulating an agreed understanding of what serious games are and can be. This article argues that the term serious games challenges our understanding of generally accepted characteristics such as, challenge, play and fun, which are largely associated with and borrowed from video games. It is argued that key to understanding what serious games encapsulate is to look beyond these characteristics. This article proposes a definition and way to frame serious games technologies, applications and ...
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    While many categorizations and definitions have attempted to elucidate the elusive term serious games, we are still some way off formulating an agreed understanding of what serious games are and can be. This article argues that the term serious games challenges our understanding of generally accepted characteristics such as, challenge, play and fun, which are largely associated with and borrowed from video games. It is argued that key to understanding what serious games encapsulate is to look beyond these characteristics. This article proposes a definition and way to frame serious games technologies, applications and environments along a continuum of gaming characteristics or gameness. From those with traditional gaming activities and characteristics (challenge, play, fun, etc.) at one end to those with minimal traditional gaming characteristics at the other end, whose main purpose is to provide experience and emotion to convey meaning. The main advantages of the definition and continuum are to establish a shared understanding and arena for current and emerging serious games, frame and connect currently fragmented groups into a cohesive serious games movement and community and open opportunities for future collaborative research and development. In addition, it helps in identifying characteristics for the design and assessment of serious games.
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    Journal Title
    Entertainment Computing
    Volume
    2
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2010.12.004
    Subject
    Computer Gaming and Animation
    Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
    Film, Television and Digital Media
    Communication and Media Studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/173074
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