Designing entertaining educational games using procedural rhetoric: A case study

Proceedings - Sandbox 2010: 5th ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5-10

  Doucet, Lars ^a   Srinivasany, Vinod ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational games; Energy; Environment; Game design; Procedural rhetoric; Serious games; Simulation games

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL GAME; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENT; GAME DESIGN; PROCEDURAL RHETORIC; SERIOUS GAMES; SIMULATION GAMES;

DESIGN; ENERGY CONSERVATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; LINGUISTICS; MECHANICS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EDUCATION;

EID: 77956270453     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1836135.1836136     Document Type: Conference Paper

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