Quest design for instructional third-person 3D virtual worlds: blending two-different conceptual systems

摘要

How do you design an instructional videogame that is fun? This paper proposes a method for doing so by blending two-different conceptual systems: fun and instructional. The general method consists of four steps. First, identify a successful video game. Second, analyze a player's avatar, tools, actions and goals in that game, abstracting them as variables in a frame - this is the fun conceptual system. Third, describe the concepts you want the player to learn, both declarative and procedural knowledge - this is the instructional conceptual system. Fourth, blend the values from the instructional conceptual system into the frame for the fun conceptual system. I apply this method to the design of a fun video game based on a virtual energy world.