====== Serious Game Design and Development ======

Course page: https://iversity.org/en/my/courses/serious-game-design-and-development/lesson_units
By Carlos Vaz de Carvalho


===== 1. Introduction to play, games and serious games =====

  * **Play**: engagement in activity for enjoyment. Voluntary.
  * **Game**: competitive activity, with a framework of agreed rules.
  * **Serious game**: not designed with entertainment as main purpose, rather to learn something.

==== Game and Play Concepts ====

  * Play is necessary condition of the generation of culture (Johan Huizinga).

==== Digital Games ====

  * Digital games add to game definition:
    * Immediate interactivity
    * Manipulation of large information
    * Automated complex systems
    * Networked communication.

==== Game Design Elements ====

  *  Creative process of going from the idea to the actual game.
  * Keep the player in the "flow channel"
  * Game elements:
    * Technology
    * Aesthetics
    * Mechanics
    * Story
  * Game mechanics types:
    * Space
    * Objects
    * Actions
    * Rules
    * Skill
    * Chance
  * Type of games:
	  * Action games: quick reflexes.
	  * Adventure games.
	  * RPG games
	  * Simulation games
	  * Strategy games
	  * Puzzle games

==== Serious Games ====

  * awareness games: Darfur is dying

==== Serious Games Analysis ====