Evaluation and Analysis of Social Games: A Case Study of Games in Facebook

• Main Authors: Lee, Man-ning, 李曼寧
• Other Authors: Jen-Chih Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43342939085620468144

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 數位科技設計學系(含玩具與遊戲設計碩士班) === 99 === The development of social network makes using social games as a teaching method becomes an emerging field, but in order to use the social network games for teaching, it needs to understand the game flow as an appropriate reference to be judged. In this paper, we use simulation games, social utility games and card-based battle games of Facebook as examples. Using Comparative method with flowcharts and triangulation theory to analyze the factors of the flows by finding verbs and goals; evaluate the factors by using Analytic hierarchy process; and obtaining the differences by comparing the five factors: the use of currency, social behavior, accumulate of experience, items collection system and tasks. In the future, this research will be extended to more types of social games, the similarities and differences among the characteristics of flow structures for all kinds of social games will be compared, the result will provide suggestions to the future use of social games in game-based learning.