Individual reflective project statement

Individual reflective project statement

Understanding about serious game.

My studio project is going to follow the serious game brief to create a game with my group. The serious game is not create for fun or just wast time.The serious games are simulations of real-world events or processes designed for the purpose of solving of solving a problem.Although serious games can be entertaining, their main purpose is to train or educate users, though it may have other purpose, such as marketing or advertisement.(Ernest Adams 2009) So It has a main propose which is need to have some serious informations or can teach some skills and knowledge for players. Players can learn some skills or knowledges from the game and use it in their real life.

What is our idea?


The idea about our serious game is want to give some knowledge of human body health care system to our players. Why we have the idea, it is mainly because in our day life, there are too many thing will effect our body health. For example the noise, food or air quality. And only a few people know these knowledge. Sometime people just do not know why he lose his body health and get ill. Our game is created to help people to fill these knowledge gaps. We going to show and teach this kind of knowledge during play our game. The player will get chance to understand how the human body system run normal and how the disease and virus attack our human body.


For the human body system learning part. We going to choose blood to be our main task. We decided to create a running game for this part. Player is going to be a blood cell in our game. He need to run for a week in a human body and keep the body running well, as the same time player need to dodge some obstacles in the vascular . Like thrombus, blood sugar or some kind of blood virus. During this part, we going to show how the blood system help body running and what element inside the human artery. Also let player know, what kind of substance will effect or kill the blood cell. Thus let player take care their own blood in really life.


Another part of our serious game is through a negative way to help player learning. The player will be become a diseases and viruses manufacturer in our game. Player can use some tools to build up a viruses cell. Then they can use it attack human blood cells. The game interface will be more like a laboratory. Player can through this to understand the composition of the virus and where is the human blood weakness place.

How we realize our game?

As a serious game, compare to the most common game. There are three challenge we should have plan and overbear it.


The first one is the game should have a very deep and rich information background. So that The research part will become a very important thing that will direct impact on the value of the our game. We going to learn the knowledge of human blood and also include what type of disease can effect our blood. About the blood system, we have to find the composition of the blood, the shape and feature of the blood cells. And the flow path of blood in the human body. About the virus in addition to it’s institution, we going to do more research about how the different type of virus attack the blood cells.


The second thing is what production platform we going to use. It is going to be a 3D RPG game or a 2D game? In this issue we still collecting the feedback from our classmate. But we more like create a 3d game rather than create a 2d flash game. Because in our game will involves many human organs, a 2d game is very hard to let player clearly know these organs position in their real bod.


The third thing is how to make the game not boring and attract player to keep playing it. In the process of playing our game we going to add some more elements to attract players and avoid our game look like very boring. We design to use multiplayer to increase the interactivity of the game. For example we can have two people against each other. One player play the blood cell and other player can control the virus to attack cells. Through this way, players can get more interest to play the game.

What areas that our serious game can be applied?


Compare to traditional game the serious game more like design for some specific groups of people or purpose. Our game is against the people that get poor awareness of their own health protection. So our game can be a helpful tool for the patient who get blood disease. Or some student who want to be a doctor in the future. If we going to publish the game, there are also have several agencies may needed, For example the blood donation agencies, Rehabilitation hospital or Medical school.


References:


Ernest Adams (2009) “Sorting Out the Genre Muddle” Gamasutra.


Rice, J.W.(2007). Assessing higher order thinking in video games. Journal of technology and Teacher Education.




Ke Jiang