Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects

by Peter Vorderer, Michael J. Cody, Ute Ritterfeld

Book Overview

Serious Games provides a thorough exploration of the claim that playing games can provide learning that is deep, sustained and transferable to the real world. "Serious games" is defined herein as any form of interactive computer-based game software for one or multiple players to be used on any platform and that has been developed to provide more than entertainment to players. With this volume, the editors address the gap in exisiting scholarship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415993695
• ISBN13: 9780415993692
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.0"