This chapter introduces a framework for the design of serious games for learning, called the design, play, and experience framework. The author argues that the great potential of serious games will not be realized without a formal design approach. To that end, the author presents and thoroughly explains the design, play, and experience framework which provides a formal approach to designing the...

Concepts from cooperative game theory have been applied to a wide range of economic problems with great success. The core equivalence and value equivalence theorems are outstanding examples of the fruitful synthesis of game theory and equilibrium analysis. These (and other results from cooperative game theory) have provided insight into market outcomes by investigating the problems in the absen...

Player experience is at the heart of good game design, but designers typically have limited experience data to work with. Detailed and fine-grained accounts of gaming experience would be of great value to designers and researchers alike, but recording such data is a significant challenge. We describe an approach based on post-game player commentaries, retrospective verbal reports cued by video ...

While generative approaches to game design offer great promise, systems can only reliably generate what they can “understand,” often limited to what can be handencoded by system authors. Proceduralist readings, a way of deriving meaning for games based on their underlying processes and interactions in conjunction with aesthetic and cultural cues, offer a novel, systematic approach to game under...

Educational games display great potential as an active form of knowledge transfer. This research field is young, but some patterns in educational game development can be recognized. In this paper, the authors present a new approach to educational game development that overcomes some downsides of more traditional systems. The paper provides the opportunity to create an educational adventure game...

Mind analysis game is a game that deals with the training and exercise of the brain. It tests the ability of the player to focus, reason under pressure and makes use of already acquired knowledge in a short period of time. Inactivity of the human mind and the low level of responsiveness of the human brain to stimulus which are prominent in some people, both old and young have been a great chall...