Using multi-discipline knowledge to balance educative effect and entertainment effect in educational games design

In educational games design area, how to design educational games with both good educative effect and good entertainment effect is always a hot issue. To solve this problem, we propose the following viewpoints: first, we argue that we should pay more attention to learning tasks and instructional design in educational games. Second, if we would like to make learning enjoyable, we should pay attention to alleviate learning burdens. Third, we summarize research fruits of multiple disciplines that is relevant to solve this problem. Finally, we propose how to apply these multi-disciplinary fruits in educational games design, namely, transferring these multi-disciplinary fruits into educational games design rules to display knowledge(knowledge input) and apply knowledge(knowledge output). Though the number of areas we listed is limited, and the solutions are not perfect, we have paved a road for the future researches.