Ontologically Mapping Learning Objectives and Gameplay Goals

Our paper presents a novel approach to bridge the gap between instructional design and game design concepts in the context of serious games design and analysis. Our solution is to create an ontological mapping between instructional objective types and gameplay goal categories, thereby creating a common language that facilitates better understanding and integration of each other’s capabilities to design and analyse serious games. The paper illustrates the steps towards this mapping and the potential benefits of bridging instructional and game design with ontologies.