Translating complex real-world issues, as the energy transition, into the context of serious games is a challenging task. Consequently, their perceptions, interests and conceptual ideas mould the spatial, institutional and social context where these practices can unfold. A broad variety of stakeholders, such as individuals, local energy initiatives, and representatives of public administration, play an important role in these processes. Next to large-scale energy production, individual practices such as energy saving or small-scale energy initiatives also contribute to the energy transition.

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Hence, despite their increasing popularity, renewables also trigger considerable societal debate and social resistance (e.g. Furthermore, it can create externalities such as noise (wind turbines) and odour pollution (bio-digesters). Pasqualetti 2012 Stremke and Dobbelsteen 2010). Transitioning to renewables, however, is not a straightforward trajectory: energy production requires extensive land-use with high landscape consumption and visual disturbance (e.g. The gas production is slowly depleting, but meanwhile it has caused different occurrences, such as earthquakes leading to serious property damages, decreased liveability, and social controversies about the future of the region. Rich in natural gas, the region has long been considered the вЂDutch Energy ValleyвЂ™. The province of Groningen is a key arena where the energy transition takes place (De Boer and Zuidema 2016). In the Dutch context, that means a necessary increase from a 5% to a 16% share of renewables by 2023 (SER 2013a). The EU climate and energy targets aim at a 20% share of renewables in the EU energy mix by 2020 (CEC 2010). вЂEnergy SafariвЂ™ is a serious game addressing the Energy Transition in the Dutch province of Groningen. In this study, a participatory game design process is analysed, which uses participatory game prototyping as a method to create a serious game prototype, called вЂEnergy SafariвЂ™. Additionally, despite following iterative approaches, most game design models are rarely participatory. As such, there are major differences in the understanding of games between the fields of participatory design (games that facilitate design processes) and game design (games as end products). From a game design perspective, however, games are more narrowly defined: they are structured activities during which players overcome obstacles imposed by game rules while pursuing a predefined goal (e.g. вЂDesign GamesвЂ™ in particular (Brandt, Messeter, and Binder 2008 Brandt 2011 Habraken and Gross 1987 Johansson and Linde 2005 Vaajakallio and MattelmГ¤ki 2014) are appreciated for their capacity to playfully evoke focussed discussions and support participants in sharing their experiences and dreams (Brandt, Binder, and Sanders 2013). Participatory tools and techniques have a long-standing history within design studies and practice. 2010 BjГ¶rgvinsson and Erling 2008), ensuring that products, technologies and plans are better aligned to peopleвЂ™s needs and more widely accepted by their future users, and with counterbalancing designer subjectivity (e.g.

Participatory design has been positively associated with increasing public engagement in research, contributing to learning (e.g. 2012 Bjarki BjГ¶rgvinsson 2008), and game design (Khaled and Vasalou 2014 Lange-Nielsen et al. Can only occur once every 15s.The last 40В years have seen a rise in the engagement of end users in design processes in many fields of design, such as urban planning (Maier 2001 Lane 2005), product and service design (Kankainen et al. Prototype Archaic Stats - Base ATK & Secondary Stat Prototype ArchaicД®ffect: On hit, Normal or Charged attacks have a 50% chance to deal an additional % ATK DMG to enemies within a small radius.

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