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Book Index

aac74 — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:29:35 CDT

A list of books on topics relevant to serious games.

Click on the title to go to that book's wiki page.
If you have read the book please leave a comment on the book's page.

Hamlet on the Holodeck - Janet H. Murray - 1997

Interactive tales, more versatile structures, stories as games, and games as stories.

Serious Games - Clark C. Abt - 1970

The author explores the ways in which games can be used to instruct and inform as well as provide pleasure.

Games And Simulations in Online Learning: Research and Development Frameworks - David Gibson - Clark Aldrich - Marc Prensky - 2006

Examines the potential of games and simulations in online learning, and how the future could look as developers learn to use the emerging capabilities of the Semantic Web.

Digital Game-Based Learning - Marc Prensky - 2004

Systematically analyzed the contexts and events of training and has synthesized a logical framework for digital game-based learning.

Simulations and the Future of Learning: An Innovative (and Perhaps Revolutionary) Approach to e-Learning - Clark Aldrich - 2003

Clark Aldrich…has written a book that will revolutionize e-learning in both education and industry.

Learning by Doing: A Comprehensive Guide to Simulations, Computer Games, and Pedagogy in e-Learning and Other Educational Experiences - Clark Aldrich - 2005

Designed for learning professionals and drawing on both game creators and instructional designers, Learning by Doing explains how to select, research, build, sell, deploy, and measure the right type of educational simulation for the right situation.

Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games (Pfeiffer Essential Resources for Training and HR Professionals) - Clark N. Quinn - 2005

Learning is at its best when it is goal-oriented, contextual, interesting, challenging, and interactive. These same winning characteristics also define the best computer games, which suggests that the most effective learning experiences are also engaging.

Second Life: The Official Guide - Michael Rymaszewski - 2006

Hit the digital ground running with Second Life: The Official Guide, the ultimate travel reference to this exciting new "metaverse." Get all the information you'll need to create your avatar, navigate the landscape, and build your in-World business to produce real-world profits.

Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter - Steven Johnson - 2005

In his fourth book, Everything Bad Is Good for You, iconoclastic science writer Steven Johnson (who used himself as a test subject for the latest neurological technology in his last book, Mind Wide Open) takes on one of the most widely held preconceptions of the postmodern world--the belief that video games, television shows, and other forms of popular entertainment are detrimental to Americans' cognitive and moral development. Everything Good builds a case to the contrary that is engaging, thorough, and ultimately convincing.

Digital Game-Based Learning

aac74 — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:02:56 CDT

http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Game-Based-Learning-Marc-Prensky/dp/0071454004

Paperback: 443 pages

Publisher: McGraw-Hill (August 20, 2004)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0071454004

ISBN-13: 978-0071454001

From the Foreword by Sivasailam
"...systematically analyzed the contexts and events of training and has synthesized a logical framework for digital game-based learning." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Mark Bieler, former EVP, Human Resources, Bankers Trust Company, 1989-1999
"A 'must read' for business managers and HR directors as well."

Games And Simulations in Online Learning

aac74 — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:14:15 CDT

http://www.amazon.com/Games-Simulations-Online-Learning-Development/dp/1599043041/

Games And Simulations in Online Learning: Research and Development Frameworks

Hardcover: 402 pages

Publisher: IGI Global (September 26, 2006)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1599043041

ISBN-13: 978-1599043043

Nearly all early learning happens during play, and new technology has added video games to the list of ways children learn interaction and new concepts. Although video games are everywhere, on Web sites, in stores, streamed to the desktop, on television, they are absent from the classroom.
Computer-based simulations, a form of computer games, have begun to appear, but they are not as wide-spread as email, discussion threads, and blogs.

Games and Simulations in Online Learning: Research and Development Frameworks examines the potential of games and simulations in online learning, and how the future could look as developers learn to use the emerging capabilities of the Semantic Web. It presents a general understanding of how the Semantic Web will impact education and how games and simulations can evolve to become robust teaching resources.

Serious Games

aac74 — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:12:27 CDT

http://www.amazon.com/Serious-Games-Clark-C-Abt/dp/0819161489/

Paperback: 196 pages

Publisher: University Press of America (March 2002)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0819161489

ISBN-13: 978-0819161482

The author explores the ways in which games can be used to instruct and inform as well as provide pleasure. He uses innovative approaches to problem solving through individualized game techniques.

Topics include: improving education with games; educational games for the physical and social sciences; games for the learning disadvantaged; games for occupational choice and training; games for planning and problem solving in government and industry; and the future of serious games. This book was originally published in 1970 by Viking Press.

Homepage

aac74 — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:48:11 CDT

Welcome to the Serious Games Wiki !

Would you like to help me edit this site?
Just email me at seriousgame@gmail.com and I'll set you up !

My aim is to try and create a 'wikipedia' for serious games with detailed information on people,
books, companies, academic centres, papers, events and software.

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Web Links

aac74 — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:44:43 CDT

Lists Of Serious Game Web Links:

Blogs:
http://terranova.blogs.com/
http://ethicalgames.wordpress.com/
http://slgames.wordpress.com/
http://game-research.com/
http://konzack.blogspot.com/
http://www.zang.org/blog/index.html
http://seriousgamesportal.blogspot.com/
http://blog.enspire.com/
http://spotlight.macfound.org/main/category/c/Ecology-of-Games/
http://richardcarey.net/
http://play2train.hopto.org/
http://archsl.wordpress.com/
http://secondliferesearch.blogspot.com/
http://gamepolitics.com/

UK Games Trade Organisations:
http://www.angils.org
http://www.elspa.com
http://www.tiga.org
http://www.gamerepublic.co.uk

Videos

aac74 — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:44:46 CDT

Some Serious Games Videos:


Shift Happens - Globalization; Information Age	The Lost Experience - alternate reality game


The Making of Re-Mission, by HopeLab	The Sims Teach German

find more videos here:
http://seriousgames.ning.com/video

Hamlet on the Holodeck

aac74 — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:03:53 CDT

http://www.amazon.com/Hamlet-Holodeck-Janet-H-Murray/dp/0684827239

Hamlet on the Holodeck Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Free Press (July 16, 1997) Language: English ISBN-10: 0684827239 ISBN-13: 978-0684827230	Technology changes storytelling--movies don't tell stories in the same manner as wandering bards. Janet H. Murray, director of the Laboratory for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is fascinated with the changes emerging technologies may bring. Interactive tales, more versatile structures, stories as games, and games as stories are among the topics she explores in her very personable and entertaining style. And what about fears that interactive escapism could be the coming addiction? She makes an unblinking examination of this question with insight into both the technological possibilities and the strengths of the human psyche. Strongly recommended for anyone who loves the art of storytelling in any medium.