Are games more than fun? : Motivational aspects on digital games

摘要: Games are increasingly becoming a powerful and effective tool for training. The use of games as training increase intrinsic motivation which enhances learning. This study concerns why people play they continue play. consists two parts; focus group web questionnaire. results suggest that prefer playing together with others, mainly because entertainment, fellowship pastime. Results also show the participants come to an agreement five different characteristics game must have in order play; pleasant feeling i.e.- effects like sounds, characters environments, variation tasks, successively increased difficulty, exciting story be understandable. These findings important these factors designers take into consider when designing games. After all, entertainment is some general reasons learn, therefore, only designed doomed fail.