Game Design Concepts: A Tertiary Literature Review
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Sol Klapztein, 
Ana Cláudia Guimarães Santos, Wilk Oliveira, J. Tuomas Harviainen, André Ribeiro de Oliveira, Juho HamariAuthors Info & Claims
Sol Klapztein, Ana Cláudia Guimarães Santos, Wilk Oliveira, J. Tuomas Harviainen, André Ribeiro de Oliveira, Juho HamariAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 139 - 144
Abstract
Over the years, gamification design has become widely discussed in design, services, and human-computer interaction, due to the possibility that experience-centered design can lead to positive user experiences. Consequently, various secondary studies (e.g., systematic mappings, literature reviews, and scoping reviews) were conducted to comprehend how gamification has been designed and implemented. Due to the considerable number of secondary studies, understanding design aspects related to gamification can be challenging. To address this problem, we conducted a tertiary literature review to answer three research questions: i) How many game design concepts have been used in literature?; ii) How are the game design concepts classified?; and iii) What are the characteristics of these game design concepts? The results indicated i) a wide variation in the researched concepts, ii) a noticeable variation in the definition of the concepts, and iii) that these concepts can be divided into two distinct but complementary design classes. Our study contributes to gamification with a classification and categorization system for game design concepts, seeking to improve gamification design methods.
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