Persuasive Games is a genre of digital games designed with the primary purpose of influencing players' attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors through interactive gameplay mechanics and narrative structures, distinguished from other game genres by its intentional focus on rhetoric and social impact.
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Persuasive games: the expressive power of videogames
Choice Reviews Online · 2008 · 1.7K citations
Critical play: radical game design
Choice Reviews Online · 2010 · 451 citations
Arts, Art History, Design +17
Tailoring persuasive health games to gamer type
Rita Orji, Regan L. Mandryk, Julita Vassileva et al. · 2013 · 222 citations · Full text
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Dalhousie University
Halifax, Canada
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26 publications
1K citations
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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7 publications
193 citations
Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada
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7 publications
374 citations
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand
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12 publications
496 citations
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Canada
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14 publications
2.6K citations
Utrecht University
Utrecht, The Netherlands
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6 publications
173 citations
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Canada
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6 publications
1.3K citations
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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9 publications
165 citations
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- International Journal of Serious Games
IJSG · 5 publications · 199 citations
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- User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
3 publications · 396 citations
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- Computers in Human Behavior
3 publications · 224 citations
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- International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations
JGCMS · 2 publications · 21 citations
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- Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 2 publications · 2.2K citations
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