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Transactions on Edutainment IV pp 266–276Cite as

Design of Educational Game: A Literature Review

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This review focuses on educational game design, including the developmental stage of design thought, design theories, design approaches, etc. Specifically it highlights the balance and integration between educational character and playfulness in educational games. This review also suggests limited research areas in existing literature and illuminates the possible further research in educational game design.

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  1. School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, Jiangsu, Nanjing, 210017, China

    Ting Wei

  2. Educational Game Research Center of Nanjing Normal University, Jiangsu, Nanjing, 210097, China

    Yi Li

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  1. State Key Lab of CAD&CG, DEARC – Digital Entertainment and Animation Research Center, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, China

    Zhigeng Pan

  2. National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Adrian David Cheok

  3. University of Education, Weingarten, Germany

    Wolfgang Müller

  4. Institute of Automation, LIAMA, The Sino-French Lab in Computer Science, NLPR, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, China

    Xiaopeng Zhang

  5. School of Information Technology, Murdoch University, South St. Murdoch, 6150, Perth, WA, Australia

    Kevin Wong

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Wei, T., Li, Y. (2010). Design of Educational Game: A Literature Review . In: Pan, Z., Cheok, A.D., Müller, W., Zhang, X., Wong, K. (eds) Transactions on Edutainment IV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6250. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14484-4_22

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