Serious game engines: Analysis and applications

Abstract

Serious games and their applications in industry, businesses and other “serious” areas is a fast growing tendency. A success of serious game or serious gamified application's implementation and use in industry significantly depends on quality of external technical gamification platform to be used, or, serious game engine (SGE). The goals of the current SGE Research Group project at Bradley University (Peoria, IL) include an analysis of 100+ serious games and serious gamified applications in industry, development of a comprehensive SGE Comparative Analysis Framework, and classification of SGE and ranking of quality of SGE features, and generation of a set of recommendations on selection and utilization of SGE. This paper presents the main findings and outcomes of the SGE research project.