Rules of Play

By Greg Lastowka. Games Cult., 2009

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Are tangibles more fun?: comparing children's enjoyment and engagement using physical, graphical and tangible user interfaces (2008, result): “This finding is in line with guidelines proposed by Salen and Zimmerman [27], which state that an enjoyable game balances challenge against possibility of winning.”
Examining the pedagogical foundations of modern educational computer games (2008, background): “…which is simply defined as using learner experiences to facilitate learning, has been a common ground for both traditional educators as well as designers attempting to integrate gamebased learning with education (Appelman, 2005; Crawford, 1984; Gee, 2003; Prensky, 2001; Salen & Zimmerman, 2004).”
Transforming homo economicus into homo ludens: A field experiment on gamification in a utilitarian peer-to-peer trading service (2013, background): “In a larger context, goals are regarded as a central game mechanism (Salen and Zimmermann, Salen and Zimmerman 2004) and have been demonstrated to exert persuasive power even when the progression towards them was illusionary (Kivetz et al. 2006, Nunes and Drèze 2006).”
Gamification in theory and action: A survey (2015, background): “In their influential work, game designers Salen and Zimmerman (2004) define a game as " a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome " (p. 80).”