Using Game Quests to Incorporate Learning Tasks within a Virtual World

Although game-based learning recently draws an increasing number of researchers´ attention, few studies, on one hand, emphasize the usage of game quests for educational purposes. One the other hand, current work still lacks enough successful cases to demonstrate how we can relate digital games with school curriculums well. In this paper, we design a game-based environment, Quest Island, to attempt to address the two issues. We hope our design experience and some lessons learned could be helpful to tackle the issues.