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Guideline for Designing an Effective Serious Game by Using Cultural-Based Game Design Model

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Many educators and researchers reported that computer games have bright potential to be used as learning tools in education. Computer games were reported to increase learner motivation, learner engagement and performance. However, literatures highlighted that designing and developing an effective computer games is very challenging. This paper attempts to provide a guideline for designing an effective serious game by using cultural-based game design model called GADEM. Eleven explicit serious game elements were extracted and described in the guideline. This guideline was presented according to cultural dimensions as described in Value Survey Module, as well as cultural markers and typography. The guideline could be used by both game developers and game designers.

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  1. Computer and Information Sciences Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 32610, Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia

    Mazeyanti Mohd Ariffin, Wan Fatimah Wan Ahmad & Suziah Sulaiman

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  1. Fac Info Science and Techn, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

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  2. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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  3. Center for Digital Video Process, Dublin 9, Ireland

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  4. Computer Science and Information Enginee, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan

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  5. Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom

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  6. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Institute of Visual Informatics, Bangi, Malaysia

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Ariffin, M.M., Ahmad, W.F.W., Sulaiman, S. (2015). Guideline for Designing an Effective Serious Game by Using Cultural-Based Game Design Model. In: Badioze Zaman, H., et al. Advances in Visual Informatics. IVIC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9429. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25939-0_10

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