Serious games provide a safe place to explore complex situations and problems in a flexible way. They can be used as a tool to address issues like disengagement and stress by making feedback deep and helping users feel the flow. Serious games also have the potential to touch the subconscious and allow users to choose games that dissect complex topics in a way that feels more like play than work.

2. Serious games are a safe place

3. Gamification versa Serious Games

4. Separate
“game” and
“serious”

7. Make feedback
deep and
Feel the flow

9. Make feedback
deep and
Feel the flow

10. Touch the sub-conscious

11. Dissect the complex situation

13. Choose
“your”
games

14. Problem to be solved
disengagement

15. Flexible tool

16. Serious games in stress
Photo credits Josephine Mills

17. I am Stani
• Scrum master at Quby (Amsterdam)
• Serious game master wherever it happens
agileseriousgames@gmail.com
Twitter: @p_stanika
LinkedIn: Stanislava Potupchik
Serious games Open space un-conference
2-4 November, the Netherlands
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