What are serious games?

[Mr. Ferretti]

Read/view the following resources and then answer the following questions:

What are serious games? If you were to design your own serious game, what would it be about? (Just hit reply to answer the questions)

Resources (The first 4 videos are below):

• GameZombie.tv presents a conversation with Ben Sawyer uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HDFPSg6y-50
• Fat World Game Trailer uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPAzhFZnkYI
• Drunk Passenger on a plane uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cEDMVSTY890
• Global Conflicts: Palestine uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3ANbDOKmJ6s
• Critical Mass Interactive's Serious Games Demo uk.youtube.com/watch?v=imjNXvDrRaM
• Serious Games Institute uk.youtube.com/watch?v=B1L_SRT1ve4
• Serious Game from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_game
• Serious Games (July 14th 2008) flux.futurelab.org.uk/2008/07/14/serious-games/
• What Are Serious Video Games? uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HbCvKz6UOFQ

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uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPAzhFZnkYI
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