OGrES Welcome! Toward a Systematic Theory for Serious Game Design

Abstract

Despite the vast scholarship around serious games, there is still no consensus methodology for how to best go about designing them. This paper presents work-in-progress toward synthesizing an actionable, systematic serious game design theory. We introduce mIBO as a computational model to aid in thinking about game design processes and rationales, and OGrES as a method for defining the function of a serious game.