How Serious is Serious Game Design? - Exploring Entertainment-oriented and Goal-oriented Gaming.

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How Serious is Serious Game Design?
Exploring Entertainment-oriented and
Goal-oriented gaming.
Robby van Delden, assistant professor, HMI UT
Ton Spil , assistant professor, BMS-IEBIS UT
Guido Bruinsma, Saxion University of Applied
Sciences, BMS-IEBIS UT
Koen Vogel, Student Assistant, CreaTe/HMI UT
Dennis Reidsma , assistant professor, HMI UT

Key message
perspectives on starting point of Serious Games:
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Exploring Entertainment-oriented and Goal-oriented gaming.
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Goal-orientedEntertainment-
oriented
Board
Computer-mediated
Mixed

Why?
 Broad spectrum of purposes
 Many reports of positive outcomes
but not always (e.g. Boyle 2015)
 We teach about and develop games
 Opportunities for bigger markets…
 Games are successful huge business
 Their educational counterparts are not that well-known
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Goal-oriented gaming. van Delden et al. (2019)
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Approach
 Start:
 “something” about starting focus,
 powerful examples that add seriousness to
entertainment
 Structured literature study
 Case studies commercial examples
 Case studies student examples
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Serious games?
 Labelling matters (van Delden et al. 2019)
 Schell 2015:
 Not overemphasizing the seriousness as primary goal
 Take into account that gaming field is serious (business)
 Transformational games, fits primary purpose
 Our use : “games with a purpose going beyond entertainment,
including and going beyond education,
including digital and board games,
and including Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) games
as well as tailor-made games.”
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oriented gaming. van Delden et al. (2019)
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Literature study

Structured literature study
 Gam AND design  #79.795
 >600 refs  #100
 Most/ relevance  #5
 Transformational gam* AND design  #48
 Most/relevance  #2
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Structured literature study Gam* & Design
 Deterding et al. 2011
 From game design elements to gamefulness: defining gamification
 Garris et al. 2002
 Games, motivation, and learning: A research and practice model
 Hamari et al. 2016,
 Challenging games help students learn: An empirical study on engagement, flow and immersion in game-
based learning.
 Schell 2008 (2015/2019)
 The art of Game Design: A book of Lenses, CRC Press
 Kiili et al. 2005
 Digital game-based learning: Towards an experiential gaming model
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Structured literature study
Transformational Gam & Design
 Barab et al. 2012
 Game-based curriculum and transformational play: Designing to meaningfully positioning person,
content, and context
 De Sousa et al. 2018
 Zombies and ethical theories: Exploring transformational play as a framework for teaching with
videogames
 + ECGBL:
 Reng & Schoenau-Fog (2016)
 The game enhanced learning model:
mapping game-based learning for educators
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Mentioned splits & spectra
 Deterding et al. (2011)
 Game world <> non-gaming context
 Reng & Schoenau-Fog (2016)
 Educational games <> Purposive games,
 supplements in teaching to mediating knowledge through development
 Garris et al. (2002)
 “instructional games” and link to active learning
 Mentions video-games <> instructional games
 including starting example of shooter-like
to Sim City as instructional
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Mentioned splits
 Hamari et al. (2016)
 challenge & skill (flow-related)
 Engagement & immersion of perceived learning
 Kiili et al. (2005)
 Feedback as part of
 Flow artefact & Flow activity (and person)
  feedback in entertainment games for learning effect
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Wanna Hafta
Pleasure seeking pain avoidance
v
s
Mentioned splits: Schell’s model

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Wanna Hafta
External Internal
from outside from within
v
s
For Rewards
To avoid
punishment
For Fun To avoid shame
Mentioned splits: Schell’s more to motivation model

Schell game design != computer mediated games
 Not jumping to computer-mediated games
 game design is not about programming,
 “many games can be played without the use of
computers
or technology”
(Schell 2015, p-xxxviii),
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Bridges from transformational games
 Barab et al. (2012)
 Transformational learning
 Communicating the power of games,
  see their own transformation
 De Sousa et al. (2018)
 Person and content
 through dialogues and narratives
  world around the game
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Exploring Entertainment-oriented and Goal-
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Model

Key message
perspective on games:
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Exploring Entertainment-oriented and Goal-oriented gaming.
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oriented
Board
Computer-mediated

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Commercial cases

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Risk
New
Management
Can
(Blik op Bestuur)
Pokémon Remission
oriented
Board
Computer-mediated

Risk
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Risk
- Goals &
planning, AI
- International
Relations
(Marks 1998)
Entertainment
Board

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flickr.com/photos/vastateparksstaff/2855541002
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creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
flickr.com/photos/vastateparksstaff/2797227529
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Pokémon
- History
(Mozelius 2018)
- Health,
triggering PA
(Xian et al.
2017)
Entertainment
Computer-
mediated

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New
Management
Can
Goal-oriented
Board
- citizens
participation,
perspectives
- 17 cities

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjLdu7SEMNs
Remission
RCT showed
+ oral
chemotherapy
adherence
+ secondary
outcomes e.g.
knowledge &
cancer-efficacy
Goal-oriented
Computer-
mediated

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Student cases

Student cases
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Under the
Radar
Wording
Nigth to Forget
& Blob’s
Comfort Zone
CAGSPaSA
oriented
Board
Computer-mediated

Wording
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CAGSPaSA - Collaborative Asymmetric Game for Sibling Pairs
with Someone with Autism
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A night to forget
by Koen Vogel & Jason ten Hage
https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.php/s/AiX7UH0TJ9ZGi1X
for win, download the zip (top right icon), extract entire folder,
and run the “Game” executable

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Blob’s Comfort Zone
by Kasper de Kruiff & Manouk Hillebrand
https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.php/s/B5lbvJFncTXQ3F7
for win, download the zip (top right icon), extract entire folder,
and run the “testhouse” executable

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Bonus: Tunettack, math was added
 https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.php/s/39VyYK8KKaHgdOm
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Reflection on use cases
 Embodied non-mediated games
 Focus also represented (coincidentally/by
selection?) in how “finished” it is
 All of them introduced the seriousness later on in
the process
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Discussion
 Model and the mixed areas
 Room for tangible embodied social games?
 E.g. Springlab’s interactive floor learning for toddlers
E.g. Malinverni’s et al. FUBILE’s
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https://springlab.nl/beweegvloer/https://fubile.wordpress.com/fubile/

Discussion
 Room for adapting
entertainment games
with seriousness
 E.g. Mods
 Minecraft Education Edition
MinecraftEDU
 How do these kind of games
perform compared to the goal-
oriented starting positions?
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/16444105421/
CC BY 2.0

Discussion
 Education
 Recognizable link to course :
 HCI-related course “Intelligent interaction design”
 Serious Games minor
 Game Design / Interactive media project
 Not many worked out board games (tech university)
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Future work
(of/with colleagues)
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critically correct
and extend
Impact on learning
can we work together?
more use cases

Thank you for your attention!
 …join?: extend to a more comprehensive framework, more use cases, impact on learning outcome, and
insights
would the beyond model extremes of “seriousification” > gamification)
 Presentation on https://www.slideshare.net/rvandelden
 draft appears on: https://people.utwente.nl/r.w.vandelden
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A night to forget Blobs comfort zone
Goal-
oriented
Entertainment-
oriented
Board
Computer-
mediated
Mixed

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