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BIG GAME: Balancing Player Preferences and Design Considerations in a Serious Game About Environmental Issues

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The article reflects on the benefits, challenges, and limitations of accommodating player preferences in serious game design. Based on a case study from an ongoing game development project (an environmentally themed multiplayer game for middle-schoolers), it discusses how player preferences need to be balanced against design considerations such as practicality and educational value.

This research was supported by the European Commission through the Erasmus+ KA2 program (Cooperation Partnerships in School Education). Grant agreement no. 2021-1-FI01-KA220-SCH-000024098.

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  1. Tallinn University, Narva mnt. 29, 10120, Tallinn, Estonia

    Mikhail Fiadotau & Peadar Callaghan

  2. EU-Track, Viale Europa 95, 04019, Terracina, Italy

    Michela Tramonti

  3. University of Turku, Joukahaisenkatu 3, 20520, Turku, Finland

    Heli Brander

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  1. Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

    Kristian Kiili

  2. Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

    Koskinen Antti

  3. Center for Advanced Pathogen Threat Response and Simulation, Austin, TX, USA

    Francesca de Rosa

  4. Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

    Muhterem Dindar

  5. Pädagogische Hochschule St.Gallen, St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Michael Kickmeier-Rust

  6. University of Genova, Genova, Italy

    Francesco Bellotti

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Fiadotau, M., Tramonti, M., Brander, H., Callaghan, P. (2022). BIG GAME: Balancing Player Preferences and Design Considerations in a Serious Game About Environmental Issues. In: Kiili, K., Antti, K., de Rosa, F., Dindar, M., Kickmeier-Rust, M., Bellotti, F. (eds) Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13647. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22124-8_34

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