Mobile Game

A life without language as a system of communication is a life that cannot be lived to the fullest. Aphasia, a multimodal neurophysiologic disorder manifested by a substantial communication restriction due to brain damage, is one of the many possible causes that can make life language-less. Fortunately, it can be treated by speech therapy to rehabilitate language skills and can even be improved by therapy via an app to supplement communication experiences as proven by recent studies. As a contribution to the gaming rehabilitation industry, this paper aims: i) to design and develop a speech therapy game application, as an additional neurorehabilitation modality for aphasia patients, and ii) to assess its applicability as an adjunct to the traditional neuromuscular rehabilitation through a pilot study. Eight sessions of game-based speech therapy were applied to seven aphasic patients, 10-15 minutes per day, once a week, for 8 successive weeks. Aphasia assessment in stroke patients was performed with a multidimensional assessment tool, built-in to the therapeutic game, based from Quick Aphasia Battery (QAB) before and after treatment. The comparison of before and after treatment revealed an improvement in all of the QAB subtests: level of consciousness, connected speech, word comprehension, sentence comprehension, picture naming, repetition, reading aloud, and motor speech. This suggests that the development of this speech therapy game and the preliminary findings from the pilot study may indeed be an effective neurorehabilitation instrument for therapy of aphasia patients.

ABSTRACT In this paper we introduce an effective approach for game design based on auditory, non-speech, feedback. We describe the design and implementation of a mobile application -- Murky Shooting - that makes use of sound to engage the user in a shooting game experience. Further, we discuss the pros and cons of the mobile version compared with the former desktop version and conclude with a presentation of the preliminary results, which prove that auditory cues solely are sufficient to provide an effective way of interaction, allowing the user to improve his/her performance and keep immersion in the game narrative.

Pervasive games are an emerging new game genre, which includes context information as an integral part of the game. These games differ from traditional games in that they expand spatio-temporal and social aspects of gaming. Mobile devices support this by enabling players to choose when and where a game is played. Designing pervasive games can be a challenging task, since it is not only limited to the virtual game world, but designers must consider information flow from the real world into the game world and vice versa. In this paper, we describe a user study with an experimental pervasive multiplayer mobile game. The objective was to understand how the players perceive pervasiveness in the game and what the crucial factors are in the design. Based on the results, we propose initial design guidelines and compare them to other design guidelines for the pervasive games.

In this paper we introduce an effective approach for game design based on auditory, non-speech, feedback. We describe the design and implementation of a mobile application -Murky Shootingthat makes use of sound to engage the user in a shooting game experience. Further, we discuss the pros and cons of the mobile version compared with the former desktop version and conclude with a presentation of the preliminary results, which prove that auditory cues solely are sufficient to provide an effective way of interaction, allowing the user to improve his/her performance and keep immersion in the game narrative.

This article examines how the unique characteristics of Marvinter, an inclusive transmedia Advent calendar, affected its production and the individual media workers involved in this. In the native transmedia Marvinter project, a radio series and a mobile game were created and released simultaneously. Using ‘partly shared’ resources, the project was developed by two collaborating, non-profit organisations. Each chapter of the digital game had to match the corresponding radio episode. The whole had to be designed to provide a shared cultural experience that included people with hearing or visual impairments. The authors of the present article were part of the game development team and thus directly experienced the complexity of developing a digital game as part of a transmedia project. This article presents the results of a case study with an insider perspective. It is supplemented by semi-structured interviews with key people in the project. The transmedia nature of Marvinter was jus...

the research team published the mobile science learning game SpacEscape to Google Play Store, introduced the game to more than 1,000 middle school students even during the pandemic, collected more data to understand how learner conduct problem-solving using mobile games, and presented the research at the Games for Change 2020 Virtual Conference to more than 500 attendees. In this report, we will share the activities, findings, and future research of the project. Overview of Activities After receiving the grant, the faculty members assembled the team, and started the game design and development. The overview of activities of this project includes game design and development, research collaboration, conference attendance and presentation. 1. Game Design and Development The 2020 SpacEscape team was consists of 10 members (3 HU faculty members, 1 IMED student, 2 CICS students, 4 high school students). The team worked together for six months on the design, development, and research, see team member roasters in Figure 1.

The aim of this article is to investigate the perceptions of university students on the use of edutainment in promoting Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in English as a second language (ESL) writing. 20 diploma students from Malaysia University of Science & Technology (MUST) participated in this study. This study adopts quantitative research design where a set of questionnaires was distributed to the students. Before answering the questionnaire, the students went through a treatment using edutainment. They had to play an online game downloaded from Play Store. They spent 13 weeks playing the game. At the end of the treatment, they had to sit for the post test. Then they were asked to complete the questionnaire. This study is in bringing positive impact to the society starting from the ministry to the students regarding the importance of the edutainment implementation in classroom teaching. The findings reveal that the students perceived that Edutainment has affected the stimulation of higher order thinking skills in their writing. This suggests that edutainment should be incorporated in the teaching and learning English.