First of all, depends completely on the game and the person playing it, second of all, yeah no you haven't.

If you're looking to help start your ideas try starting here.

If this part of your actual research, I can't quite see the value in straight up qualitative 'perceptions of education'. Go for some more valid measures or look at what has already been done.

people play games
games make us human

point to someone who has finished growing up
point to something or someone that that can teach nothing
or has nothing left to learn

The thing with educational gameing is producers tend to over think the games and they become boring and dry very quickly. i have been developing a game that is both educational and entertaining. games sucth as medal of honor and call of duty are not really based on any truth there may be some historic facts in the game but for a good story they sacrifice historic game play.


the game that i am developing is rich in history and very accurate with the time lines in the game you could use the infomation to write history report if you wanted.
at the same time i did not want the game play to become to slow or become unblanaced in any way. it is possible to make a good history game and not sacrifice story or accuracy of the time lines. but brining it under a certen rateing is the problim

i think what you're getting at is that the thing is once you start throwing subject matter into a game (if you're on your way to developing one) it becomes a ratings issue if you then want to publish that game across any of the popular disty frameworks

if supermeat boy can raise the gooly of the vegetarians but something like fez is a huge success it's for some reason. there will always be things that are off limits and won't get acceptance and especially if you get negative feedback from parents who find their children playing games that they object to on moral grounds.

it's been covered a lot in the past.

So if anyone can make a game with time limit, or set a time and need to be played after 24hours. that can make one gamer to have his limit, if they did not set the game will set for 3hrs maximum

one of the big things a lot of games teach is social interaction.

i useally play games where the learning curve is step in the game play - game like eve, dota 2, tanks etc. What I have learned with most of these games is how you interact with other players

think of some of the large eve corps.. the guys running those corps could easily run real corps... if only they wernt gamers

also what uni is this research for?

Unless you're talking about the House of the Dead typing game, the most video games can hope to achieve, like literary fiction, is to show you a side of humanity that you otherwise had not experienced.

If video games are your primary extra-curricular source of learning, you are being developmentally stunted. I don't doubt that one day we will have many game experiences that are genuinely a contribution to humanity, games that can make us better people, but I don't think we're there yet.

Loved Civilization 1 and 2 as a kid which always had a fairly high educational value to them

We must of played different versions because the Civilization I remember was that Egypt won the space race and world domination!