Serious games and seriously fun games: Can they be one and the same?

Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 48-61

  Shen, Cuihua ^a   Wang, Hua ^a   Ritterfeld, Ute ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84882742262     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203891650     Document Type: Chapter

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