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STRICTLY EDUCATIONAL: AN EXPLORATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATIONAL GAME DEVELOPER, CLIENT, AND END USERCasey M. Chastain (5930579) 16 January 2019 (has links)
With the interactivity
and immersion of players into video games, rising development costs, and
heightened expectations from AAA developers video games need to make sure they
hit their target market more than ever. This is something that is less extreme in
the educational game development space; but ultimately true with limited grant
funding, limited development time within a student developer’s schedule, and
how rapidly a recently leased student content creator will need to learn the
space and needs of the client. When a student is brought on late into a
development cycle, it can become troublesome when they are required to meet new
developing features on a changing project. This paper looks over how one team
approached this issue, with a focus on meeting the needs of a group of American
high school teachers. Within this paper, the focus is how they tackled the
issue, and how the teachers reacted to the end prototype, with some insight
into the older prototypes of the project. Throughout it they had reinforced the
ideas that communication, data validity, and set contract goals are important
identifiers for project success. Teachers looking at video games care more
about the data being valid and clearly communicated more than if a game is fun
or laden with features and mini-games.
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Digital Educational Games: Methodologies for Development and Software QualityAslan, Serdar 02 November 2016 (has links)
Development of a game in the form of software for game-based learning poses significant technical challenges for educators, researchers, game designers, and software engineers. The game development consists of a set of complex processes requiring multi-faceted knowledge in multiple disciplines such as digital graphic design, education, gaming, instructional design, modeling and simulation, psychology, software engineering, visual arts, and the learning subject area. Planning and managing such a complex multidisciplinary development project require unifying methodologies for development and software quality evaluation and should not be performed in an ad hoc manner. This dissertation presents such methodologies named: GAMED (diGital educAtional gaMe dEvelopment methoDology) and IDEALLY (dIgital eDucational gamE softwAre quaLity evaLuation methodologY).
GAMED consists of a body of methods, rules, and postulates and is embedded within a digital educational game life cycle. The life cycle describes a framework for organization of the phases, processes, work products, quality assurance activities, and project management activities required to develop, use, maintain, and evolve a digital educational game from birth to retirement. GAMED provides a modular structured approach for overcoming the development complexity and guides the developers throughout the entire life cycle.
IDEALLY provides a hierarchy of 111 indicators consisting of 21 branch and 90 leaf indicators in the form of an acyclic graph for the measurement and evaluation of digital educational game software quality.
We developed the GAMED and IDEALLY methodologies based on the experiences and knowledge we have gained in creating and publishing four digital educational games that run on the iOS (iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch) mobile devices: CandyFactory, CandySpan, CandyDepot, and CandyBot. The two methodologies provide a quality-centered structured approach for development of digital educational games and are essential for accomplishing demanding goals of game-based learning.
Moreover, classifications provided in the literature are inadequate for the game designers, engineers and practitioners. To that end, we present a taxonomy of games that focuses on the characterization of games. / Ph. D.
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<b>Designing a Narrative Driven Serious Game for Learning Bengali</b>Koushiki Pohit (18422274) 22 April 2024 (has links)
<p dir="ltr">Use of serious games and gamified applications for language learning have increased substantially over the past decade. They are an effective way to supplement language learning. These applications utilize a range of language learning methods such as grammar-translation, audio-lingual and task-based learning in combination. Task-based language learning particularly suits the typical gameplay elements of narratives and quests. Thus, this study aims to develop a serious game for learning Bengali, world’s 7th most spoken language. The literature in this area indicates that hubshaped quest landscape design is found to be most effective for game-based learning environments. So, the study implements a branching, hubshaped narrative for learning Bengali language.</p><p dir="ltr">This application also implemented a hidden object mechanism for vocabulary acquisition instead of traditional grammar-translation methods used in other language learning software. The prototype was assessed from user feedback in a qualitative manner across four broad heuristic categories comprising of learning, tutorials, engagement and cultural elements. In the process, the study sought to understand whether cultural context-based interventions in the narrative improve learner motivation.</p><p dir="ltr">The results show a positive impact of cultural elements on the learners’ motivation to progress. Further, the hidden object mechanism was received as a satisfactory method to learn foreign vocabulary. This form of interactive, narrative based educational application has the potential to supplement traditional lessons for foreign language acquisition.</p>
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