Newsgames

Journalism has embraced digital media in its struggle for reinvention. But most online journalism just translates existing practices to the Web. Games work differently: they simulate how things work by constructing interactive models. Newsgames can persuade, inform, and titillate; make information interactive; recreate a historical event; put news content into a puzzle; teach journalism; and build a community.

Newsgames use the properties of games and computation to provide alternative ways of thinking about a subject. Gamification throws a cursory layer of interactions related but not essential-to games (points, leaderboards, rewards) on top of existing material to incentivize participation. Newsgames attract return visitors because they are engaging and informative.

Newsgames

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