Serious Game Design for Children: Validating a Set of Guidelines

Abstract

Many academic works focus their studies in the socalled Serious Games (SG). Many of these games ended up being far from children's expectations, particularly when compared to conventional games. This work assesses a set of 40 guidelines for designing SG for children. Fifth nine experts concluded that most of the guidelines are of high relevance (scored above 9.0) but all of them are worth attention (scored above the middle of the scale) when designing SG for children.