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Engagement in digital entertainment games: A systematic review

<29> While digital entertainment games clearly provide highly engaging activities, the nature of this engagement is not well understood. The current literature review identified papers which looked at engagement from a number of different perspectives and categorised these papers to provide some organisational structure to the area. Areas examined included subjective experiences while playing games, the physiological concomitants of these experiences, motives for playing games, game usage and time spent playing games and the impact of playing on life satisfaction. A clearer understanding of nature of engagement in games will also feed into the creation of more effective serious games.