Technologies’ rapid advance in developing digital media has been extensively applied in contemporary play materials to enrich children’s play, such as electronic or computerized toys, electronic story books, television, personal computers, and game consoles. Recently, studies about digital games in these areas have begun to appear. Some educators have a vision that these games have the potentia...

In this paper I propose a new theory for the study of persuasiveness within digital games. This theory aims to make visible how persuasiveness can be structured within digital games and to be useful to identify specific aspects of games' persuasiveness that might not be obvious to the naked eye, by giving them order and conferring them intelligibility. The theory that I propose here is based on...

Biologically inspired algorithms (neural networks, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, etcetera) are commonly applied in development of digital games. We argue that there are opportunities and possibilities for integrating real biological organisms inside computer games, with potential added value to the game’s player, developer and integrated organism. In this approach, live organism...

The design of exertion games (i.e., digital games that require physical effort from players) is a difficult intertwined challenge of combining digital games and physical effort. To aid designers in facing this challenge, we describe our experiences of designing exertion games. We outline personal reflections on our design processes and articulate analyses of players' experiences. These reflecti...