Aesthetics and Design for Game-based Learning - Paperback / softback

Aesthetics and Design for Game-based Learningprovides learning designers with insight into how the different elements that comprise game aesthetics can inform the design of game-based learning. Regardless of the cognitive complexities involved, games are essentially entertainment media, and aesthetics play a large role in how they are experienced. Yet too often the role of aesthetics in the research about game-based learning has been relegated to a surface discussion of graphics or neglected altogether. Aesthetics and Design for Game-based Learning begins by addressing the broad context of game aesthetics, then addresses specific elements with chapters focusing onplayer positioning game mechanicsnarrative designenvironment designcharacter design.Each chapter includes research and guidelines for design, and a conclusion addresses aesthetics in the research of game-based learning.