Since the first days of the Serious Gaming industry, many Serious Games dedicated to Healthcare were released. However, all these games don’t serve the same purpose, nor they target the same audience. This article tries to propose an approach suited to handle the variety of such Serious Games. Starting from general definitions of Serious Games, we will build a taxonomy of Healthcare-related to Serious Games accompanied with several examples.
Keywords : Serious Game, Retro Serious Game, Taxonomy, Healthcare, Prevention
Chipeur the fox want to steal Dora's food and replace it with junk food. Protect Dora's health by stopping all the fox !
Keywords : serious game, dora, action, shoot
A serious game teaching about healthy meals habits. Help Frank to pick food according to its limited budget, so he can have a long and healthy life...
Keywords : serious game, healthy meals, healthy habits
A serious game teaching about healthy meal habits. Listening to advices from Puppy the dog, arrange a meal for your heroin, and watch what effect it will have on its health and life expectancy...
Keywords : serious game, healthy meals, healthy habits, cartoon
One of the flagship book of the current wave of Serious Games, focused on videogames. This 350 pages book start with a definition of Serious Games, through a comparative analysis with entertainment videogames. It then features a lot of games examples for each of the main Serious Games application domains in 2005: defense, government, corporate, education, healthcare, politics, religion and art. This book also gives some Serious Games design advices related to each of these domains. This bo
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