Reflections on applying a criteria to evaluate a serious game

David Farrell; Yasemin Allsop; Olga Shabalina; Pierre Grace; Christos Malliarakis

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-23766-4_58

Reflections on applying a criteria to evaluate a serious game

David Farrell, Yasemin Allsop, Olga Shabalina, Pierre Grace, Christos Malliarakis

Applied Computer Games

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Abstract

Whilst the field of Serious Games is maturing, the problem of how to identify a good game is still unresolved. Several criteria for game evaluation have been proposed and tested by academics but there are few reports academics using other people’s criteria, or of several experts applying the same criteria to a game to see if they agree on the game’s qualities. This paper presents an evaluation of a game that is under redevelopment. A third party evaluation criteria is applied by four independent experts and the results are reflected on by the game’s designer. Where the experts and designer disagree, the reasons are examined. Finally questions are raised about the risks inherent to any distillation of academic theory to practical evaluation tool.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	734-747
Number of pages	14
Volume	535
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319237664
ISBN (Print)	9783319237657
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23766-4_58
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2015

Keywords

educational games
evaluation
expert evaluation
games based learning
serious games

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