This is especially important in educational contexts, as stakeholders such as faculty, parents and administration view the value and use of explicitly entertainment focused titles in educational contexts skeptically. By providing for a set of criteria that elaborates on the value of the game as ...
Science mode is a different style of game than sandbox mode, but still an element that evokes a playful experience. The experience, in this case, is one geared toward flow, so it follows more faithfully with the elements and comparisons made above. That is not to say that the sandbox mode...