Pedagogical dramas and transformational play: Realizing narrative through videogames design

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5915 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 332-335

  Barab, Sasha A ^a   Dodge, Tyler ^a   Ingram Goble, Adam ^a   Volk, Charlene ^a   Peppler, Kylie ^a   Pettyjohn, Patrick ^a   Solomou, Maria ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational games; Interactive narrative; Social commitment

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; EDUCATIONAL GAME; GAME DESIGN; INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE; SOCIAL COMMITMENT; SOCIAL VALUES; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS; VIDEO GAME;

EID: 72149101276     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10643-9_42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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