Title :
The study of characters design in PRG educational games
Author :
Wang, Yanli ; Wang, Feng ; Cheng, Yun ; Zhao, Chengling ; Zheng, Zhongmei
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Educ. Sci. & Technol., HuangGang Normal Univ., Huanggang, China
Abstract :
Computer games are today an important part of most children´s leisure lives and a growing part of our culture and learning. Educational games can make a good combination of games and education, and try to support children´s learning through playing games to realize happy study. RPG educational game is an important type of games in today´s school teaching, because of its virtual experience environment and the most important-different kind of characters. This paper discussed how to design the characters in RPG educational games, its classification, principles and process, and then took the game ldquoZheng He´s voyages to Occidentrdquo as an example, to talk about how to design the player characters and main NPC in RPG educational games.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; computer games; pattern classification; teaching; computer game; educational game; role-playing game; school teaching; Books; Computer aided instruction; Computer industry; Computer science education; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Ethics; Helium; Information technology; Layout; Case; Character; Character Design; Educational Games; Principle; RPG;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science and Information Technology, 2009. ICCSIT 2009. 2nd IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4519-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4520-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICCSIT.2009.5234855