2018 Games for Change Festival

When well designed, digital games can be powerful environments for improving players’ engagement, motivation, learning, skill development, attitude change, and behavior change, and a growing number of games have successfully improved players’ health behaviors and outcomes. In this talk, Debra Lieberman will present evidence-based, well tested principles that game developers can use in the design of health games aimed at behavior change. She will also present examples of health games that have incorporated one or more of the principles effectively.