Design and Use of Serious Games (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)

During the last few years, a new area of creative media industry, namely Serious Games, has started to emerge around the world. The term serious games has become more popular for example in the fields of education, business, welfare and safety. Despite this, there has been no single definition of serious games. A key question, what the concept itself means, has stayed unsolved though most have agreed on a definition that serious games are games or game-like interactive systems developed with game technology and design principles for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment. In this book, serious games are understood as games which aim at providing an engaging, self-reinforcing context in which to motivate and educate the players. Serious games can be of any genre, use any game technology, and be developed for any platform. They can be entertaining, but usually they teach the user something. The central aim of serious games is to raise quality of life and well-being. As part of interactive media industry, the serious games field focuses on designing and using digital games for real-life purposes and for the everyday life of citizens in information societies. The field of serious games focuses on such areas as education, business, welfare, military, traffic, safety, travelling and tourism.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, 37
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	2009
Editors:	Marja Helena Kankaanranta • Pekka Neittaanmaki
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	206
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009
ISBN-13:	978-90-481-8141-4
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > Software engineering Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Computer modelling & simulation Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Teacher training Books > Social sciences > Education > Educational resources & technology > General Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Technical design > General Promotions
LSN:	90-481-8141-0
Barcode:	9789048181414

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