Book Reviews: Half Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds

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General Video Game Playing (2013, background): “In his book Half-Real (11), Juul offers a six-part definition of what a game is: (1) games are rule-based; (2) they have variable outcomes; (3) the different outcomes have different values; (4) the player invests effort to influence the outcome; (5) the player is attached to the outcome; and (6) the”
Motivating Children to Learn Effectively: Exploring the Value of Intrinsic Integration in Educational Games (2011, background): “The gaming literature provides an overwhelming number of different approaches to defining the essence of a game (Caillois, 1961; Crawford, 1982; Huizinga, 1950; Juul, 2005; Koster, 2005; Salen & Zimmerman, 2004).”
Classifying Serious Games: The G/P/S Model (2011, background): “Additionally, several studies deal extensively with different kinds of video game rules, such as Salen & Zimmerman (2003), Juul (2005), Djaouti & al.”