Companies that want to use educational games (serious games) to transmit knowledge and to train employees should not focus on the educational qualities of the game. PhD student Andreas Alexiou found that players learn more from a game if they appreciate the design of the game's story and find it exciting. It allows players to get more into the game environment, which creates a greater learning effect. Reported Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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