GAM 382: Serious Games

Project 4: A Serious Game

Due Wednesday, June 10, in class

Objectives

Find out how much students can learn from a game like yours.
Present your game design, demo to instructor, other GAM382 students.

Introduction

This is it. This where it all comes together. You've faced the challenge of creating a game to help teach certain concepts. Now you will find out how well it worked.

This is a group project.

What you will do

Present the final version of your game to the target students.
Allow them to play the game.
Give them a post-test to assess their learning.
Present the final game and learning results to our class.

What you will present

Before the Wednesday session, your group should prepare a presentation about your game to give in class. You should use powerpoint (or similar), to help you organize your ideas and for review during grading. Your presentation should revolve around the learning objectives for your game. Include these topics:

The learning objectives for your game. What types of knowledge (from Bloom's taxonomy) are included?
Your design concept, and how it addresses the learning objectives
Main implementation issues (but not tedious details please)
Roles: a table giving details of who did what in this project
Learning assessment:

What questions are you asking?
How do they relate to your learning objectives?
How do they relate to your game?
How well did the students do? (create a slide for this with the details to be filled in on the day)

Discussion

What worked well in your game ...

as a game?
for achieving learning objectives?

What didn't work so well in your game ...

as a game?
for achieving learning objectives?

If you had had more time, what would you have added / changed?
If you started over from scratch, what would you do differently?

Conclusions

Final thoughts about the project, course
Suggestions for next time the course is taught (besides starting project earlier)

What you will hand in

The final game
The presentation

Grading

This project is worth 25% of your final grade. Grading will not be based on how well the students learned the intended concepts, but it will be based on how seriously you attempted, addressed, and reflected on the learning objectives. More specifically, the grade will be based on:

The final game
The assessment of learning
The presentation, covering the points above

Last modified: Thu Jun 4 10:51:16 CDT 2009