what do we mean with serious games?
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@Games for EverythingInternational workshop at VIC
June 17th, 2016
What do we mean with serious games?
By Carolina Islas, PhD
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Who is the speaker ?
2007 2012 2014graduation of founders
2016
H2020 partner:
main milestones
ELÄMÄN PITKOSPUUT
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BraheaMyst @ Lieksan keskuskoulu, LieksaAim: pupils build stories of their city for mobile phones based on historical facts
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LieksaMyst @ Pielisen Museo, Lieksa, FinlandAim: gain historical understanding whith emphasis on the life style of past generations
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Heroes of Koskenniska @ TuupovaaraAim: invite visitors to listen the forest through and its biodiversity through the elements it offers.
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Oxymoron “Serious games”
● Oxymoron.- rethoric a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”
● Huinzingua (1951) : “a free activity standing quite consciously outside ‘ordinary’ life as being ‘not serious’, but at the same time absorbing the player intensely and utterly.”
● Riddles….
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Mapping
My research:
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Technology ?
● 1970 ● Cold war era● One of his goals was to
use games for training and education.
● Board game: The New Alexandria Simulation: A Serious Game of State and Local Politics
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Abt definition of Serious Games
“Games may be played seriously or casually. We are concerned with serious games in the
sense that these games have an explicit and carefully thought-out educational
purpose and are not intended to be played primarily for amusement. This does not
mean that serious games are not, or should not be, entertaining.”
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Are video games for entertainment not focus on learning?
● Chess● Checker ● OXO ● Spacewar…..
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Ancestors of serious games
Djaouti, Alvarez, Jessel and Rampnoux (2011):
– Education
– Health care
– Defense
– Art & culture
– Religion
– Corporate training and advertisement
1992
1971
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Numerous ancestors of “Serious Games”
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Study performed by Djaouti, Alvarez, Jessel, Rampnoux in 2011. (reported on the article Origins of Serious Games) studied 2218 “serious games”
Database available: http://serious.gameclassification
.com/
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Commercially: BM: Pay session or pay game copy
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Commercial games evolve….
● 1994, the Entertainment Software Rating Board
● 1999 Columbine● 2002 White paper: “Serious Games” by
Sawyer and Rejeksi beginning of the current wave of Serious Games. (entitled originally: “Improving Public Policy through Game Based Learning and Simulations).
1983
1992, Midway Games
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Serious game is a billions USD market
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What do we mean with serious games?
● Serious games is not a new phenomenon. ● Serious games might mean different things for different experts and practitioners. Create a common ground when talking about serious games.
● Serious games, as games for entertainment, are multidisciplinary, however they should include ideally knowledge of educational scientists, game designers and content experts.
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¿Preguntas?y
¡Gracias!