Serious games and social change: Why they (should) work

Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 248-270

  Klimmt, Christoph ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 84883527339     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203891650     Document Type: Chapter

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