Serious game

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A serious game or applied game is a game designed for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment. The "serious" adjective is generally prepended to refer to video games used by industries like defense, education, scientific exploration, health care, emergency management, city planning, engineering, and politics. Serious games are a subgenre of serious storytelling, where storytelling is applied "outside the context of entertainment, where the narration progresses as a sequence of patterns impressive in quality ... and is part of a thoughtful progress". The idea shares aspects with simulation generally, including flight simulation and medical simulation, but explicitly emphasizes the added pedagogical value of fun and competition.

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History

The use of games in educational circles has been practiced since at least the twentieth century. Use of paper-based educational games became popular in the 1960s and 1970s, but waned under the Back to Basics teaching movement. (The Back to Basics teaching movement is a change in teaching style that started in the 1970s when students were scoring poorly on standardized tests and exploring too many electives. This movement wanted to focus students on reading, writing and arithmetic and intensify the curriculum.)

The early 2000s saw a surge in different types of educational games, especially those designed for the younger learner. Many of these games were not computer-based but took on the model of other traditional gaming systems both in the console and hand-held formats. In 1999, LeapFrog Enterprises introduced the LeapPad, which combined an interactive book with a cartridge and allowed kids to play games and interact with a paper-based book. Based on the popularity of traditional hand-held gaming systems like Nintendo's Game Boy, they also introduced their hand-held gaming system called the Leapster in 2003. This system was cartridge-based and integrated arcade-style games with educational content.

By 2010, serious games had evolved to incorporate actual economies like Second Life, in which users can create actual businesses that provide virtual commodities and services for Linden dollars, which are exchangeable for US currency. In 2015, Project Discovery was launched as a serious game. Project Discovery was launched as a vehicle by which geneticists and astronomers with the University of Geneva could access the cataloging efforts of the gaming public via a mini-game contained within the Eve Online massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Players acting as citizen scientists categorize and assess actual genetic samples or astronomical data. This data was then utilized and warehoused by researchers. Any data flagged as atypical was further investigated by scientists.

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See also

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References

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Further reading

• Joy e as Letrinhas: um Serious Game como ferramenta de auxílio no processo de alfabetização de crianças do ensino fundamental.
• Abt, C. (1970). Serious Games. New York: The Viking Press.
• Aldrich, Clark (2009). The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games. Pfeiffer. p. 576. ISBN 0-470-46273-6. 
• Anderson, E. F.; McLoughlin, L.; Liarokapis, F.; Peters, C.; Petridis, P.; de Freitas, S. (2009), Serious Games in Cultural Heritage, VAST-STAR, Short and Project Proceedings, 10th VAST International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (Eurographics VAST '09), Faculty of ICT, University of Malta, pp. 29-48 
• Baranowski, T; Buday, R; Thompson, DI; Baranowski, J (January 2008). "Playing for real: video games and stories for health-related behavior change". American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 34 (1): 74-82. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2007.09.027. PMC 2189579 . PMID 18083454. 
• Digitalarti Mag #0 (2009). Serious Game (PDF). pp. 24-25. 
• Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Simon. The basic learning approach behind Serious Games. April 2005
• Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Simon. Overview of research on the educational use of video games. March 2006
• Graafland, M., Schraagen, J. M., Schijven, M. P. Systematic review of serious games for medical education and surgical skills training.
• Houda Mouaheb, Ahmed Fahli, Mohammed Moussetad, Said Eljamali. The Serious Game: What Educational Benefits?. Sep 6, 2012
• Jalink, M.B., Goris, J., Heineman, E., Pierie, J.P., ten Cate Hoedemaker, H.O. The effects of video games on laparoscopic simulator skills..
• Lang, F., Pueschel, T. and Neumann, D. (2009). "Serious Gaming for the Evaluation of Market Mechanisms", Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2009.
• Mettler, T., Pinto R. (2015). Serious games as a means for scientific knowledge transfer - A case from engineering management education. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 62(2), 256-265.
• Reeves, Byron; Reed, J. Leighton (2009). Total Engagement: Using Games and Virtual Worlds to Change the Way People Work and Businesses Compete. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing.
• "Winners & Learners: Classroom Discourse Surrounding Educational Games" by Kristen Shanahan
• The International Journal on Serious Games, a scientific Open Access Journal, first issue January 2014.
• Thompson D, Baranowski T, Buday R et al. Serious Video Games for Health: How Behavioral Science Guided the Development of a Serious Video Game. Simulation Gaming August 2010 vol. 41 no. 4 587-606.
• Zyda, M. (September 2005). "From visual simulation to virtual reality to games". IEEE Computer.

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