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. 2017 Sep 2;31:52. doi: 10.14196/mjiri.31.52

Table 3. Types of digital educational games for Medical Education .

Types of Games Citations Game Name and Designer (Examples retrieved from Wikipedia.org)
Card games [13, 34, 36] Magic: The Gathering (Richard Garfield)
Board games [ 13, 34] Ticket to ride (Alan R. Moon)
Simulation [13] The Sims Online (William Ralph Wright)


Role-playing
[13, 22] Final Fantasy XI (Hiromichi Tanaka)
[37] Geriatric Medication Game, Saint Louis College of Pharmacy
Frame games [36] Portal (Valve Corporation)
Puzzles [22, 36] Minesweeper (Curt Johnson)
Cross-words [36] Digital Cross Words (USA today)
TV show format [ 13] Grey’s Anatomy (Shonda Rhimes)
Virtual learning 3D platform [21] Second Life (Linden lab)
Game show
[34]
The Chamber (Rick Schwartz)
Slide presentation Concentration 9 (Lora O’Neil)
Multi media Magnet Mania Scratch off (TCD Communications, NY)
Strategy game [22] Dungeons and Dragons (Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson)

3D First person shooter game

[22, 38]
Half-Life (Valve Corporation)
2D non–first-person shooter game [38] Chessmaster (Ubisoft Romania)
Arcade games [22] Periscope (David Rosen)