As a specific concept, serious games have been drifting around the design sphere since at least the turn of the millennium. Yet for all the hype, and all of the yearly GDC conferences on the subject, the theory has had some trouble gaining traction as more than an academic or industrial curiosity.
According to Ben Sawyer of Digitalmill and Peter Smith of the University of Central Florida, some of the problem in the serious games movement is a general haziness as to exactly what serious games are, and are for.
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http://www.dmill.com/presentations/serious-games-taxonomy-2008.pdf
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Wednesday, 20 February 2008
SGS Keynote: Sawyer, Smith On Serious Gaming For Life
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