A Serious Game: Defying Disaster Earthquake

The tremendous growth in the serious games market presents the opportunity to help people learn through playing games. Defying Disaster is a 2D side scroller serious game designed to teach people how to prepare for and handle an earthquake. Players do a series of mini games that provide earthquake s...

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Main Author:	Wang, Tianhe
Other Authors:	Mark L. Claypool, Advisor
Format:	Others
Published:	Digital WPI 2015
Subjects:	serious game
Online Access:	https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/1190 https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2189&context=etd-theses

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spelling	ndltd-wpi.edu-oai-digitalcommons.wpi.edu-etd-theses-21892019-03-22T05:45:46Z A Serious Game: Defying Disaster Earthquake Wang, Tianhe The tremendous growth in the serious games market presents the opportunity to help people learn through playing games. Defying Disaster is a 2D side scroller serious game designed to teach people how to prepare for and handle an earthquake. Players do a series of mini games that provide earthquake survival tips while interacting with a larger world after an earthquake disaster. An evaluation with thirty people compared learning disaster knowledge through reading materials versus playing games. The results show people learn better through playing Defying Disaster than reading materials. 2015-05-04T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/1190 https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2189&context=etd-theses Masters Theses (All Theses, All Years) Digital WPI Mark L. Claypool, Advisor Dean O'Donnell, Advisor Robert W. Lindeman, Committee Member serious game
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A Serious Game: Defying Disaster Earthquake

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