Current trends in using serious games and video games in the field of urban planning

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Current trends in using serious games and video games in the field of urban planning

Original language description

The use of games for research and practical use has gathered considerable momentum in recent years. In the presented article, the author analyses past and current research as well as non-research practical uses of serious games and commercial video games for the purposes of urban planning. First, the experience of using games as a learning tool in urban planning classes is discussed, both the benefits and the concerns this approach brings. Another preferred use of games in urban planning is to engage various stakeholders in a participation project. This can be done by employing digital serious games that incorporate attractive modern information technologies but also by using popular commercial video games such as Minecraft. One of the main functionalities that enables the use of video games “seriously” is the possibility of modifying the game to solve a given problem by modding, the process of implementing user-written custom scripts. Further, digital serious games, video games and video games with modding that have been employed in urban planning are compared in six selected criteria: attractivity, configuration, “white box”, reusability, reflecting reality and support.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50702 - Urban studies (planning and development)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Kartografické listy

ISSN

1336-5274

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Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

14-24

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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