Open Resources for Basics of Serious Games

About serious games in general

• Susi, Johanesson, Bäcklund, Serious Games Overview.
  
• Damien Djaouti, Julian Alvarez, Jean-Pierre Jessel, Classifying Serious Games: the G/P/S model.
  

Genres of serious games

• Edutech wiki, Serious Game. 

Game design and mechanics of games

• Delmar Learning, The basics of Game Design, Chapter 1

Game evaluation 

• Desurvire, Caplan & Toth, 2004, Using Heuristics to evaluate the playability of games. 
  
• A decision tree to work out if it is a Serious Game, a game or anything else! (In the end of the article)  
• SCRUM. Scrum Alliance.
• Edutech wiki, Ch 7, Game Design
• Mikko Sorppanen,  Acting as s product owner and customer ”WE WANT A 3D GAME” Customer expectations for the games company when buying a seriousgame. Pages 40-61.