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. With this volume, the editors address the gap in exisiting scholarship on gaming, providing an academic overview on the mechanisms and effects of serious games.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415993709
• ISBN13: 9780415993708
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 20 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"