An Assessment of Serious Games Technology: Toward an Architecture for Serious Games Design

Table 2

Synthesis which presents the classification of serious game and models addressing SG design discussed in state of the art according to the endogenous approach.

Works	Content representation into the game		Models proposed for serious game design
			Process	Architecture
	Directly	Analogical		Functional	Technical
An experimental card game for teaching software engineering processes [16].	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
PlayScrum - A Card Game to Learn the Scrum Agile Method [25].	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
A serious game for developing computational thinking and learning introductory computer programming [17].	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
A Platform Independent Game Technology Model for Model Driven Serious Games Development [26].	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
RAGE Architecture for Reusable Serious Gaming Technology Components [27].	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
A general architecture for the integration of educational videogames in standards-compliant virtual learning environments [28].	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
A New Methodology of Design and Development of serious game [29].	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
The design of an analogical encoding tool for game-based virtual learning environments [21].	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes!
The six facets of serious game design [12].	Yes!	Yes	Yes	No	No
Knowledge Management Approach to Support a Serious Game Development [13]	Yes	Yes!	Yes	No	No
Games, motivation, and learning: A research and practice model [7].	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
A conceptual framework for serious games [24].	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
The design, play, and experience framework [30].	Yes	No	No	Yes	No