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Game thinking (or gamification) is related to game-oriented thinking, in processes that are not games, aiming to reach a specific objective and using engagement mechanisms.
Game design thinking is focused on the design and development of games based on design thinking methodology.
Introduction
The concepts of game thinking (or gamification) and game design thinking are commonly mixed, although both have different proposals and applications (Deterding et al. 2011; Castro 2013; Jewell 2016; Sailer et al. 2017). Marczewski (2014) performed an analysis involving the main differences between game design and game thinking and points out that, while the game design is related to something that entertains people in a fun way, the game thinking proposal is to do something in order to achieve a specific goal.
The term game thinking relates to the use of game elements in contexts that do not necessarily consist of games and/or...
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da Silva, I.C.S., Bittencourt, J.R. (2024). Game Thinking X Game Design Thinking. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23161-2_289
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