An engine selection methodology for high fidelity serious games

2nd International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 27-34

  Petridis, Panagiotis ^a   Dunwell, Ian ^a   De Freitas, Sara ^a   Panzoli, David ^a  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Game engines; High fidelity; Serious games

Indexed keywords

ENGINE SELECTION; GAME ENGINE; GAMING TECHNOLOGY; HIGH FIDELITY; HIGH FIDELITY MODELS; INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNS; SELECTION CRITERIA; SERIOUS GAMES; SERIOUS GAMING; TECHNICAL REQUIREMENT; TRAINING SIMULATION;

ENGINES;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 77953016355     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VS-GAMES.2010.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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