%0 Conference Paper %A Manero Iglesias, José Borja %A Fernández Manjón, Baltasar %A Moreno Ger, Pablo %A Martínez Ortiz, Iván %A Freire Morán, Manuel %T Serious games: a journey from research to application %D 2014 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/102535 %X This paper presents our perspective on serious games, covering relevant aspects of the current situation and what we consider are the key elements to be developed over the next few years. Serious games have undergone a long journey from niche research to application in real settings, coming closer to the generalization of games in mainstream education. We describe some of the lines of research. %~