Game Content Model: An Ontology for Documenting Serious Game Design

Computer games is a form of real-time interactive software wrapped in creatively crafted media that offers game-players engaging, goal-directed play. Designing computer games requires adequate experience and great attention to detail to describe the rules, play and aesthetics that compose the interactive experience. For inexperienced game designers, formalised methods such as game design languages and game meta-models can provide a guide and language to produce a game design specification correct by design. This paper introduces a new game content model that can aid game designers document specification of game design.