Contributing Disciplines
Creating entertainment games is always an interdisciplinary effort, and becomes even more pronounced when serious game creation involves experts from a specific subject area or supporting disciplines, such as pedagogy. As these experts can come from almos
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Games Foundations, Concepts and Practice
Serious Games
Ralf Dörner Stefan Göbel Wolfgang Effelsberg Josef Wiemeyer •
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Editors Ralf Dörner Department of Design, Computer Science and Media RheinMain University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden Germany
Wolfgang Effelsberg Lehrstuhl für Praktische Informatik IV University of Mannheim Mannheim Germany
Stefan Göbel Multimedia Communications Lab - KOM Technische Universität Darmstadt Darmstadt Germany
Josef Wiemeyer Institut für Sportwissenschaft Technische Universität Darmstadt Darmstadt Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-40611-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40612-1
ISBN 978-3-319-40612-1
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Preface
Entertainment, fun, challenge, motivation, excitement, and interest: These are some of the positive associations people have when they think about computer games. Recent developments—from powerful graphic processing units, smartphones and other mobile devices, to novel interaction devices such as 3D cameras or VR glasses—all increase the chances that the next generation of digital games will be able to strengthen these positive associations. This makes it even more tempting to think about how to use digital games for purposes other than “just” playing. Who would not want to use software, e.g., for learning that is entertaining, fun, challenging, motivating, exciting, and interesting? Who would not want to develop such software? Who would not want to provide such software to others? A serious game is a name given to computer software that tries to achieve just that. While some people think that serious games and games for learning are synonymous, digital games can be used for “ser
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