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Case study This week, I have been working further on the game cases. I looked at a range of cases and selected four exemplars as material for my discussion. Among them, Minecraft is a new case. In this game, players will learn how to combat a pandemic, one block at a time: Witness an Outbreak …
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First Prestation Today, I’m going to talk about — How games enhance players’ initiative in terms of learning and public welfare through their interactivity? First, let’s clarify a few definitions. What is the interactivity of the game? In computers, interactivity is the dialog that occurs between a human being and a computer program. In the …
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Case Study Metro Trains Melbourne (2014) Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games [Video game]. Available at: /https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.au.com.metro.DumbWaysToDie2&hl=US (Accessed: 4th of May, 2021). Dumb Ways to Die 2 is a charity game created to promote rail safety in Melbourne, Australia, where almost 1 thousand people fall off the tracks in a year. Metro Trains, a …
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Research Trista, P. (2019). Playing for the planet: how video games can deliver for people and the environment. UNEP. Available at: https://biblioteca.semarnat.gob.mx/janium/Documentos/Ciga/libros2018/CD004283.pdf (Accessed: 10th of May, 2021). The United Nations document already gives some detailed guidance. You can find initiatives on a number of environmental issues, including Helping parents to engage with their children around …
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Search for Topics Using games to create positive social value is one of the aims of my postgraduate Games Design degree. Therefore I set several themes related to it and analysed which one was more appropriate. Q1. How to make functional/serious games fun? In China, Tencent Games Dreaming Plan has launched a number of serious …
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