A cookbook method for Persuasive Game Design

Siriaraya, Panote; Visch, Valentijn; Vermeeren, Arnold; Bas, Michael

doi:10.17083/ijsg.v5i1.159

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“…There are many different approaches for serious game design. Very often, these serious games design methods suggests guidelines and techniques, but lack practical demonstrations [29].…”

Section: Serious Game Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Play Your Process Method for Business Process-Based Digital Game Design

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Xexéo

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Serious games have been understood as a useful tool to engage, educate and train individuals in many areas. They are also suitable for the business processes management area where it is expected that business-process-based digital games can bring together players (process actors) to better understand and learn organizational business processes. This paper presents a game design method for the development of serious games which aims to provide business process understanding to players, as well as to allow them to reflect on process challenges and difficulties. The design of serious business process games requires game designers to have business process modeling skills and instructions on how to represent business process elements in the game context. This research was conducted using the Design Science Research Methodology, and addresses the challenge of providing a method for the design of serious business process games. The method receives business process models as input and comprises steps to (i) map business process elements into game design elements, game design and development, and (ii) evaluate games with game designers, process actors, and game players. In order to validate the method, a set of games was built and evaluated with players. The designed games were evaluated as to adequate quality, although fun and entertainment can still be improved, and players´ understanding regarding process increase after games are played

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“…There are many different approaches for serious game design. Very often, these serious games design methods suggests guidelines and techniques, but lack practical demonstrations [29].…”

Section: Serious Game Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Play Your Process Method for Business Process-Based Digital Game Design

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Araújo

Xexéo

et al. 2019

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“…Serious games have attracted significant academic interest, in terms of their design [1]- [3], implementation [4], evaluation [5]- [10], and even from a business perspective [11]. The focus of this paper is on serious games for heritage (SGsH) [12], [13], of which many examples can be found throughout the literature, for both design [14]- [18] and evaluation [19], [20].…”

Section: Serious Games and Virtual Environments For Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

Applying constrained virtual environments to serious games for heritage

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2019

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Virtual environments are an important aspect of serious games for heritage. However navigable three-dimensional (3D) environments can be costly and resource-intensive to create and for users to run. In this paper, we propose an alternative approach using “constrained virtual environments”, which present an environment through a series of reduced fidelity two-dimensional (2D) scenes without exhaustive detail. We describe the development of a constrained virtual environment to replicate a 3D environment from a serious game concerning ancient Mesopotamian history. An exploratory experiment discovered that participants experienced a similar sense of presence in the constrained environment to that of the 3D environment and rated the two games to be of similar quality. Participants were equally likely to pursue further information on the subject matter afterwards and collected more information tokens from within the constrained environment. A subsequent interview with a museum expert explored opportunities for such games to be implemented in museum displays, and based on the experiences and issues encountered, a preliminary set of guidelines was compiled for implementing future constrained virtual environments within serious games for heritage.

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“…In persuasive game design practice, the choice for a motivating game element is not made at the start of a project. Following our Persuasive Game Design (PGD) method [40], gamification projects start by specifying the real world goal of a persuasive game, i.e., the "transfer effect", followed by investigating the "user context". The information gathered in these two stages is used in the next stage, the gamification design, which includes choosing and designing game elements for the game.…”

Section: Rewards In Persuasive Game Design: Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Next to transfer type, a transfer effect is specified by its change type (initiating, altering, diminishing, or reinforcing a behavior) and its point of impact (i.e., when one expects the transfer effect to occur-during gameplay (e.g., exergames), directly after gameplay (learning games), or a long time after gameplay (lifestyle change)) [40]. The expected point of impact of a transfer effect will influence design decisions regarding rewards.…”

Section: Rewards In Persuasive Game Design: Implicationsmentioning

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“…More specifically, video gaming is associated with dopamine release, and all addictive substances trigger increases in dopamine in a key region of the reward (limbic) system in the brain [38,39]. Additionally, adding game-elements to an addiction therapy might make the therapy more engaging for patients, and hence enhance the therapeutic adherence [40]. While game-rewards may be particularly motivating for adolescents, it is not clear whether this also holds for adolescents with substance use disorders.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Design and Application of Game Rewards in Youth Addiction Care

2019

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Different types of rewards are applied in persuasive games to encourage play persistence of its users and facilitate the achievement of desired real-world goals, such as behavioral change. Persuasive games have successfully been applied in mental healthcare and may hold potential for different types of patients. However, we question to what extent game-based rewards are suitable in a persuasive game design for a substance dependence therapy context, as people with substance-related disorders show decreased sensitivity to natural rewards, which may result in different responses to commonly applied game rewards compared to people without substance use disorders. In a within-subject experiment with 20 substance dependent and 25 non-dependent participants, we examined whether play persistence and reward evaluation differed between the two groups. Results showed that in contrast to our expectations, substance dependent participants were more motivated by the types of rewards compared to non-substance dependent participants. Participants evaluated monetary rewards more positively than playing for virtual points or social rewards. We conclude this paper with design implications of game-based rewards in persuasive games for mental healthcare.

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A cookbook method for Persuasive Game Design

Cited by 31 publications

References 40 publications

The Play Your Process Method for Business Process-Based Digital Game Design

The Play Your Process Method for Business Process-Based Digital Game Design

Applying constrained virtual environments to serious games for heritage

The Design and Application of Game Rewards in Youth Addiction Care

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