They can also be used for other purposes and can be applied in almost every area. Serious games are not limited to training (exercising) or learning. They should, in general, motivate the player to achieve the characterizing goal through appropriate methods, an engaging player experience, and the use of appropriate interaction technology. Examples include educational games, such as Meister Cody – Talasia (Meister Cody GmbH), and games for health, such as ExerCube (Sphery AG) and Pokémon GO (Nintendo Co).
Serious games aim to accomplish this characterizing goal without compromising the experience of playing a game (player experience). Serious games are digital games that not only entertain but also intend to achieve at least one additional goal, a so-called characterizing goal. We provide guidelines for high-quality serious games drawn from literature analysis and in close cooperation with domain experts. For the analysis of these games, we refer to “DIN SPEC 91380 Serious Games Metadata Format.” A summarized text states quality criteria for both the serious and the game part, and especially the balance between them. The selected best-practice serious games either prove their effectiveness through scientific studies or by winning game awards. Furthermore, we analyzed and summarized 22 state-of-the-art serious games for education and health. In addition to the review of the relevant literature, we also include workshop results.
The fundamental goal of our research is to identify important factors of serious games and to adapt the existing principles and requirements from game-related literature to effective and attractive serious games. This paper aims to identify essential quality criteria for serious games. Unfortunately, the double mission of serious games, that is, simultaneous achievement of intended effects (serious part) and entertainment (game part), is not adequately considered in these studies. Recently, many studies have explored different quality criteria for serious games, including effectiveness and attractiveness. Serious games are digital games that have an additional goal beyond entertainment.
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