Creating a science of games

Really cool looking section in the latest Communications of the ACM v50i7. Some highlights:

• Games for science and engineering education by Merrilea J. Mayo
  
• Games for training by Ralph E. Chatham
  
• How to build serious games by Henry Kelly, Kay Howell, Eitan Glinert, Loring Holding, Chris Swain, Adam Burrowbridge, Michelle Roper
  
• Using storytelling to motivate programming by Caitlin Kelleher, Randy Pausch

There's a lot of other very interesting stuff from this issue which I'll highlight in a later post.