An Interdisciplinary Student Project on Educational Game Design

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2014-09-20

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Özgen Koçyıldırım, Dalsu

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Game design requires collaboration of team members from different backgrounds such as design, engineering and education. An interdisciplinary student project was conducted with undergraduate students from two different universities and disciplines, to observe and assess how this collaborative aspect influences the process and the results of a game design assignment. Eighteen prospective instructional designers taking the elective course Educational Game Design in Hacettepe University’s Faculty of Education were distributed into six teams of three or four students. These teams were matched with prospective visual designers from Middle East Technical University’s Faculty of Architecture, who were taking the elective course Visual Narrative in Design. On both courses, the importance of non-linear narratives for game design was emphasized and students were encouraged to investigate this approach to storytelling according to their own disciplines. In the first stage, instructional designers prepared a proposal for an educational game, following a design document template given by their instructors. These proposals were then digitally submitted to their visual designer team members, to receive feedback on how to improve the non-linearity of the game narrative as well as to get visual proposals for the look of the game. Finally, considering these feedbacks and visual proposals, instructional designer implemented and developed their games. In this study, the process and the results of this interdisciplinary project is given in detail. Through descriptive analysis of questionnaires and interviews conducted with students, the final results of the project have been assessed and recommendations for further studies are formulated.

Subject Keywords

Educational games, Serious games, Game design, İnterdisciplinary, Non-linear narratives

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/71455

Conference Name

Proceedings of International Conference on Education(18 - 20 September 2014)

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Department of Industrial Design, Conference / Seminar

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D. Özgen Koçyıldırım, “An Interdisciplinary Student Project on Educational Game Design,” Szombathely, Hungary, 2014, vol. 1, p. 137, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/71455.