Playability: The secret of the educational videogame design

Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning

Volumn 2008-January, Issue , 2008, Pages 147-156

  Sánchez, José Luis González ^a   Zea, Natalia Padilla ^a   Gutiérrez, Francisco Luis ^a   Cabrera, Marcelino José ^a   Paderewski, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Education; Playability; User centre design; User's profile; Videogames design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938603350     PISSN: 20490992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Review

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