ABSTRACT
In Orson Scott Card’s science fiction novel Ender’s game (1985), Earth’s military command selects 10-year-old Ender Wiggin to attend Battle School and, upon promotion, Command School.At these institutions of military training, students learn to engage combat by playing an immersive-“serious”—game that simulates intergalactic warfare. Over the several years that follow, Ender masters gameplay and excels at leading spaceships full of children-warrior-players in tactical maneuvers against the “buggers,” an insect-like alien species at war with Earth.
