Dear colleagues,
I'm conducting a study in order to discuss the research challenges in the development process of educational games. So, I will be happy for the opportunity to discuss with you about the main challenges you perceive about the educational game's development/design.
Please, let me know, in your opinion, what is the biggest research challenge in the development/design of educational games?
I would say this: introducing a task into a game has the very high potential to spoil the play; introducing play into an activity has the very high potential to spoil the task. Achieving harmonious (even synergistic) balance between task and play is the goal... it is not easily done, and will probably look different for every learning objective and game genre.
I personally consider practical challenges like budget, staff, etc. to be secondary to this overarching concern about the player experience. Even a tiny, inexpensive, individually developed game might strike a supremely successful balance; even well-funded, highly professionalized teams can miss the mark entirely.
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