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    An investigation of learning game design : scoring activity-goal alignment

    194379_Whitkin2014.pdf (3.732Mb)
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    Authors
    Whitkin, Josh
    Date
    2013
    Supervisor
    Dr Andrew Hutchison
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    PhD
    
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    School
    School of Design
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/296
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    Abstract

    This research aims to improve the practice of designing video games with a purpose beyond entertainment, especially learning games. This thesis extends Shelton’s theory of activity-goal alignment, which relates a player’s activity and the designer’s intended learning goal in any learning game. By developing two tools that score activity-goal alignment, this thesis argues that activity-goal alignment is an important, prevailing position in the learning game design literature that can be made clearer in practice.

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