Understanding Fun in Cooking: Preliminary Study of Serious Games on Cooking Domain

Cooking is an important life skill to master. Despite the importance, a study suggests that there is a decline in cooking skills between generations. In accordance with that, serious games emerge as a form of solution which has purposes to solve the problems in an entertaining way. Serious games are often presented to solve numerous real-life problems, such as education, medical, and even culinary. This literature review studies a few of the many benefits of serious games that may help solve problems in the realm of cooking. The study focuses primarily on cooking serious games due to their capabilities to solve problems in an entertaining manner. The result indicates that there are positive benefits in utilizing serious games to solve certain problems not only in cooking, but also other issues such as cognitive skills. The findings from this research are intended to be the preliminary in developing serious game to compensate the problem from cooking domain.