Design and Development of Training Games: Practical Guidelines from a Multidisciplinary Perspective - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107051746 ISBN 13: 9781107051744

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The multidisciplinary nature of learning-games development is key to successful projects. In this book, leaders in the field of serious games and professionals in entertainment games share practical guidelines and lessons learned from their own experiences researching and developing learning games. This volume includes • a summary of the key elements of design and development that require particular attention from multiple disciplines to ensure success; • an overview of successful models and methods, and of the tradeoffs made throughout the process, to help guide development; • cohesive, multidisciplinary views of the issues that may arise and of the techniques applied in order to produce effective learning games grounded in specific experiences, community consensus, and analysis of successful learning games that have already been released; • the stories behind the games, to illustrate how final design and development decisions were reached. Aimed at professionals and academics interested in developing and researching learning games, it offers a comprehensive picture of the state of the art.

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About the Authors

Dr Talib S. Hussain is a senior scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies with more than a decade of experience in developing and testing training solutions for both humans and machines. He has developed serious games for the army, the navy and the intelligence community, among others. As principal investigator for the ONR-sponsored Virtual Environment for Ship and Shore Experiential Learning (VESSEL) project, he led the development of authoring technology for games, the development and deployment of the VESSEL Damage Control Trainer game for navy recruit training, and several empirical studies on games and learning.

Dr Susan L. Coleman is the chief performance officer for Intelligent Decision Systems, Inc. (IDSI). Although she began her career as a teacher in the public school system, she has spent more than twenty years analyzing and designing training systems for the military. Her designs have won the Award of Excellence from the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), the Best Game Award in the business category at the 2009 Serious Games Showcase and Challenge, Training magazine's 2010 Outstanding Training Initiative Award, and the 2010 Outstanding Achievement in Modeling and Simulation for Training Award from the National Training and Simulation Association. She has written more than thirty-five technical reports and twelve published articles, and has given numerous presentations at national conferences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107051746
• ISBN 13: 9781107051744
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 568
• Editor: Hussain Talib S., Coleman Susan L.