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The rapid developments of new communication technologies have facilitated the popularization of digital games, which has translated into an exponential growth of the game industry in the last decades. The ubiquitous presence of digital games has resulted in an expansion of the applications of these games from mere entertainment purposes to a great variety of serious purposes. In this edited volume, we narrow the scope of attention by focusing on what game theorist Ian Bogost has called "persuasive games", that is, gaming practices that combine the dissemination of information with attempts to engage players in particular attitudes and behaviors. This volume offers a multifaceted reflection on persuasive gaming, that is, on the process of these particular games being played by players. The purpose is to better understand when and how digital games can be used for persuasion, by further exploring persuasive games and some other kinds of persuasive playful interaction as well. The book critically integrates what has been accomplished in separate research traditions to offer a multidisciplinary approach to understanding persuasive gaming that is closely linked to developments in the industry by including the exploration of relevant case studies.

Game, play, persuasion, game design, serious games

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Fictional Practices of Spirituality provides critical insight into the implementation of belief, mysticism, religion, and spirituality into worlds of fiction, be it interactive or non-interactive. This first volume focuses on interactive, virtual worlds - may that be the digital realms of videogames and VR applications or the imaginary spaces of life action role-playing and soul-searching practices. It features analyses of spirituality as gameplay facilitator, sacred spaces and architecture in videogame geography, religion in videogames and spiritual acts and their dramaturgic function in videogames, tabletop, or LARP, among other topics. The contributors offer a first-time ever comprehensive overview of play-rites as spiritual incentives and playful spirituality in various medial incarnations.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- Computer Games. --- Digital Media. --- Game Design. --- Interactive Fiction. --- Media Studies. --- Media. --- Popular Culture. --- Religion. --- Religious Studies. --- Spirituality. --- Videogames.

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Why do we play games and why do we play them on computers? The contributors of »Games and Rules« take a closer look at the core of each game and the motivational system that is the game mechanics. Games are control circuits that organize the game world with their (joint) players and establish motivations in a dedicated space, a »Magic Circle«, whereas game mechanics are constructs of rules designed for interactions that provide gameplay. Those rules form the base for all the excitement and frustration we experience in games. This anthology contains individual essays by experts and authors with backgrounds in Game Design and Game Studies, who lead the discourse to get to the bottom of game mechanics in video games and the real world - among them Miguel Sicart and Carlo Fabricatore.

Media studies --- Aporia and Epiphany. --- Computer Games. --- Ergodic Systems. --- Game Design. --- Game Mechanics. --- Game Studies. --- Ludology. --- Media Aesthetics. --- Media Art. --- Media Studies. --- Media. --- Motivation. --- Narratology. --- Video Games. --- Games; Video Games; Media; Media Studies; Game Studies; Game Design; Ludology; Narratology; Motivation; Game Mechanics; Ergodic Systems; Aporia and Epiphany; Computer Games; Media Aesthetics; Media Art --- Electronic games --- Computer games --- Application software --- Electronic toys --- Games --- Social aspects. --- Design. --- Design --- Media & Communications --- Video Games --- Media --- Media Studies --- Game Studies --- Game Design --- Ludology --- Narratology --- Motivation --- Game Mechanics --- Ergodic Systems --- Aporia and Epiphany --- Computer Games --- Media Aesthetics --- Media Art --- Video games

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This Special Issue of Arts explores the art and practice of adaptation in several different mediums with a focus on film and video games. The topics covered include experimental game design, narrative design, film and trauma, games adapted from literature, video game cinema, film and the pandemic, film and the environment, film and immigration, and film and culture.

Mulan --- adaptation --- Disney --- Orientalism --- cultural authenticity --- cultural palimpsest --- Chinese cinema --- science fiction --- The Wandering Earth --- patricide --- patrilineality --- nationalism --- media --- mass culture --- film --- digital games --- film adaptation --- experimental game design --- game design process documentation --- T.S. Eliot --- Prufrock --- remediation --- comic strip --- animated film --- split screen --- video poem --- YouTube dramatic monologue --- photographic montage --- Contagion --- propaganda --- pandemic --- premediation --- Steven Soderbergh --- Scott Z. Burns --- transit --- migrants --- empathy --- liminal spaces --- Bildungsroman --- modernity --- videogames --- Shakespeare --- Tale of a Forest --- biodiversity --- documentary --- ecocriticism --- environmental narrative --- forest --- nature photography --- nostalgia --- species --- video games --- game studies --- Star Wars --- George Lucas --- game reviews --- criticism --- thematic analysis --- Japanese video games --- game localization --- cultural adaptation --- localization approaches --- localization strategies --- domestication --- foreignization --- reception --- trauma --- origin --- psychoanalysis --- repetition --- impossibility --- loss --- representation --- extremity --- writing --- image --- failure --- memoir --- missed experience --- creative writing studies --- screenwriting --- video game narrative design --- interactive writing --- horror film --- horror video games --- survival horror --- character development --- sci-fi --- thriller --- genre --- tropes --- methodology --- n/a

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The aim of this book is to present and discuss new advances in serious games to show how they could enhance the effectiveness and outreach of education, advertising, social awareness, health, policies, etc. We present their use in structured learning activities, not only with a focus on game-based learning, but also on the use of game elements and game design techniques to gamify the learning process. The published contributions really demonstrate the wide scope of application of game-based approaches in terms of purpose, target groups, technologies and domains and one aspect they have in common is that they provide evidence of how effective serious games, game-based learning and gamification can be.

serious game --- gamification --- game-based learning --- programming teaching --- sustainability teaching --- mobile app --- asynchronous learning --- COVID-19 --- dental education --- distance learning --- game analytics --- integrative review --- remote learning --- serious games --- reading comprehension --- strategy training --- intelligent tutoring system --- feedback --- diabetes self-management --- RAD methodology --- game-design-based --- Software Usability Scale --- OMD --- eye-tracking --- training --- vision impairment --- rehabilitation --- vision teachers --- edutainment --- virtual reality --- traffic safety --- rollover simulator --- seat belt --- awareness --- digital game-based learning --- media in education --- multiplication game --- digital games usefulness --- computational thinking --- Swift Playgrounds --- 12-year Basic Education --- Bebras --- programming --- emotions --- emotional intelligence --- apps --- augmented reality --- usability --- primary school --- physics --- n/a