Hi Kevin, I’ve came across a few implementations of serious games in Second Life. It’s a fairly easy platform to get started with and would also require little setting up from your end. In fact I would suggest contacting some other educational institutes that have presence in SL and see if they could lend you some space for students to work in.
If you do however would like to look more deeply into game development at lower level I would suggest looking into Unity3D which has a free version and is easy to learn. Altho as I’ve mentioned it would require much better understanding how computer games work. Thanks, Bartosz Ptaszynski w: http://yazzgoth.com p: +353 21 234 8088 m: +353 86 774 8098 f: +353 76 606 0745 YAZZGOTH Limited 3rd Floor River House Blackpool Business Park Cork, WCR-37-SW9 Ireland On 14 Oct 2010, at 10:10, Kevin Gill wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking at developing a game at the moment. The target audience is > students in schools. I believe that the game class is a "Serious Game" > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_games). > > The game should complement the curriculum rather than deliver it. > > The learning experience should be stored server side and customisable without > having to understand the game design. (This I expect is my development work.) > > I am avoiding making further design decisions because I don't know the field > and in particular, I don't know what is effective. > > I have looked at one virtual world style authoring tool, thinking worlds > (www.thinkingworlds.com). It is an easy tool. For web deployment it produces > ShockWave, which seems unstable and difficult to support. A windows based exe > deployment is also available. > > Has anyone got any recommendations for reading. I am initially interested in > high-level design references for 'Serious Games'. Something that explains how > games deliver/complement learning, what is effective and what is not, how to > keep a group together etc. > > I am also interested in platforms/engines/development tools. In particular if > there are easy to use games authoring tools which deliver flash for web > consumption. > > Thanks, > > Kevin > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Python Ireland" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/pythonireland?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pythonireland?hl=en.
