The Art of Computer Game Design
The Art of Computer Game Design
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
A methodology for the design of educational computer adventure games
A methodology for the design of educational computer adventure games
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Fun and Games
Balancing Play, Meaning and Reality: The Design Philosophy of LEVEE PATROLLER
Simulation and Gaming
ICEC'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Entertainment Computing
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Most educational or training games, also referred to as serious games, have been developed without an underlying design theory. In order to make a contribution to the development of such a theory, we present the underlying design philosophy of Levee Patroller, a 3D first-person game used to train levee patrollers in the Netherlands. This approach stipulates that the design of a serious game is a multi-objective problem where trade-offs need to be made. Making these trade-offs takes place in a 'design space' defined by three general boundary criteria: 1. fun (game), 2. learning (pedagogy), and 3. validity (reality). The various tensions between these three criteria make it difficult to 'balance' or create harmony in a serious game. We illustrate this process with a discussion on the design of Levee Patroller. In addition, we translate the aforementioned general design criteria into a number of concrete design requirements for serious games.