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Hypermedia Narrative as a Tool for Serious Games

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Interactive digital literature; Interactive multimedia narrative; (as a tool for) Applied game; Formative game; Game with a purpose; Games for change

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Hypermedia refers to interactive multimedia in a nonlinear medium. It may include video, plain text, audio, graphics, and animation brought together using hyperlinks (links referring to data). A narrative is a story or report connecting events. It may include characters, time (duration and frequency), and a space where characters develop and perform actions. Hypermedia narrative is a tool to develop ideas, documents, and multimedia using digital tools.

A game is an activity with specific rules related to a physical or mental feeling of evasion of reality and enjoyment performed by one or several players who freely participate to solve a challenge. A video game is an interactive computer-based game using a user interface to provide feedback, which includes automatic processes and actions and hidden rules occurring in...

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  1. Electronics and Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia

    Andrés Adolfo Navarro-Newball

  2. Universidad Francisco de Vitoria de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Borja Barinaga López

  3. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Isidro Moreno Sánchez

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  1. Andrés Adolfo Navarro-Newball
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  2. Borja Barinaga López
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Correspondence to Andrés Adolfo Navarro-Newball .

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  1. Applied Computer Science Department, Woodbury University Applied Computer Science Department, Burbank, California, USA

    Newton Lee

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Navarro-Newball, A.A., López, B.B., Sánchez, I.M. (2018). Hypermedia Narrative as a Tool for Serious Games. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_202-1

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