Our department have started work on a new exciting new project called RAGE, which stands for Realising an Applied Gaming Ecosystem. When I tell anybody I’m working on this they kind of get this idea that it is a project about gaming, but they are not really sure what ‘applied gaming’ is, to be honest, before I started the project I didn’t have an idea either. Before starting the project I would have said that applied gaming was a modern word for ‘serious games’, but I have since changed my game, perhaps a game doesn’t have to be designed with serious intent to be educational, Minecraft seems to be used in many educational settings successfully.
At the kick off meeting for the project we asked 28 people (28 people working on the project) what they thought applied gaming was and funnily enough we got 28 very different answers. We asked them what industry they worked in and to explain the term ‘allied games’ in one sentence. I haven’t really got my head around it yet, but it seems that many people also have a link between serious games and applied games in their minds. Here are the answers:
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Education |
Games that deliver a learning result in a pedagogical content |
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Real games used by many end users |
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Games that use leisure principles to achieve an education or black hat marketing purpose. |
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Games played for a specific purpose (e.g. education, training) Rather than leisure – this doesn’t mean that leisure games don’t educate or |
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A game going beyond the simple leisure |
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Learn with fun |
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Games with a design purpose other than fun for the player |
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To support training |
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Train/educate users |
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Games to learn in a pleasant way all kinds of skills |
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Games with learning as its primary purpose. |
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Games crediting a given domain which is subject of learning |
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Games for non-entertainment purposes |
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Applied games are games with education-first design approach but entertainment |
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Games for learning |
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Games that are useful for something |
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Games through which you gain knowledge and/or skills |
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Industry (Game) |
I didn’t know those words before coming in Heerlen… Stupid, I’ve been in this business for 28 years. |
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Application of gaming technology or methods in areas outside pure entertainment. |
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Games applied to real word activities to provide an educational means |
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A game designed for a specific purpose beyond the game experience itself |
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I know games, but applied games have no sense for me. |
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Industry (Other) |
Serious games |
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Games used for serious objectives and not just for leisure |
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Games with focused contents and methodologies aimed at specific purposes |
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Games for non-leisure purposes |
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Government / Agency |
Games used in life situations, using artificial intelligence and often components’ to better societies needs. |
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Research Institute |
Games which support achieving goals outside of the game itself |
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