Let’s Play Serious Games!

Since 2016, the College of Advanced Studies on Social Inclusion (CASSI) has been working on the development of social sensitivity games. The games serve a dual purpose, on the one hand, to familiarise players with important social values, mainly aimed at changing negative attitudes towards disadvantaged people based on gamification as a learning methodology, and on the other hand, to provide a testing framework for research by game developers. Players as participants of the games provide continuous feedback during CASSI events, both on the playability of the games and on the social and moral messages they contain. Hundreds of players have so far been introduced to the games described in our book at our events. Scientific researches based on the games’ measurements has been published in our study book in both print and online versions under the title „Let’s Play Serious Games! Methodological studies in the field of social sensitivity” in 2022. In this current book, we provide more detailed descriptions of these games, organised into thematic chapters, providing information on the history of their creation, what knowledge and skills they develop, and an introduction to the authors. The thematic chapters are based on methodologies applied for the creation of escape rooms, drama, role-playing games, space games, table-top board games and online board games..

The editors:

Inez Z. Koller

Míra T. Bruszt