Co-creative Serious Games Design Process using Nonlinear Storyline Editing

Mika Letonsaari, Jukka Selin, Mikko Lampi

2017

Abstract

Here we present a serious game development process. The process is characterized by the collaboration in the development by contributors of wide range of skills, including end-users with no special skills in information technology. The aim of the game is to teach a broad range of information and communication technology skills as well as general practices required in the working life. For this purpose a rich content open world multiplayer game has been developed. The game design is highly modular allowing concurrent and continuous development process. Modular tasks are learning experiences crafted by experts in certain aspect of target skills. But tasks themselves can be customized easily without special skills. Especially, interactive non-linear dialogues between user and computer controlled characters inside the tasks can be created by end-users.

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Letonsaari M., Selin J. and Lampi M. (2017). Co-creative Serious Games Design Process using Nonlinear Storyline Editing . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: SGoCSL, ISBN 978-989-758-239-4, pages 582-588. DOI: 10.5220/0006320305820588


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sgocsl17,
author={Mika Letonsaari and Jukka Selin and Mikko Lampi},
title={Co-creative Serious Games Design Process using Nonlinear Storyline Editing},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: SGoCSL,},
year={2017},
pages={582-588},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006320305820588},
isbn={978-989-758-239-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: SGoCSL,
TI - Co-creative Serious Games Design Process using Nonlinear Storyline Editing
SN - 978-989-758-239-4
AU - Letonsaari M.
AU - Selin J.
AU - Lampi M.
PY - 2017
SP - 582
EP - 588
DO - 10.5220/0006320305820588