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Design Processes and Decisions

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Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies

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This chapter discusses the design of serious games and presents the CENTRIC Serious Games Developmental Framework to guide design processes and decisions. Considering aspects such as pedagogy, immersion, fidelity and presence, this framework discusses a holistic design method, which utilises the potential of co-development to create a successful serious game.

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    Feature creep is the potential for the requirements of a project to increase beyond the original scope of the product throughout the course of development.

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    Jonathan Saunders

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    Babak Akhgar

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Saunders, J. (2019). Design Processes and Decisions. In: Akhgar, B. (eds) Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies. Security Informatics and Law Enforcement. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29926-2_8

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