Story-based Games Research Articles

A Study on Interactive Storytelling for Digital Picturebooks - Focusing on Connection with Story-Based Game Apps -

A Study on Interactive Storytelling for Digital Picturebooks - Focusing on Connection with Story-Based Game Apps -

Enhancing Trichomonas vaginalis Identification in Cytology Students through Gamification.

Trichomonas vaginalis is a causative agent of trichomoniasis, a sexually transmitted disease. In the cytology course context, students are taught to identify the cytomorphological characteristics of this organism. However, the limited learning period hinders their ability to recognize this infection effectively. This study intended to evaluate the efficacy of gamification by utilizing a web-based online game to enhance students' capacity to recognize Trichomonas vaginalis infection in cytology. The study involved 50 Medical Laboratory Technology students who were randomly assigned to three groups. Group 1 (G1) participants received an interactive web-based online game called CytoUniverse, which comprised three components: a story-based game, a cytomorphology game, and a quiz focusing on Trichomonas vaginalis infection in cytology. Group 2 (G2) participants received the same information from a video lecture. Group 3 (G3) received both the web-based online game and the video lecture. The participants were assessed before the intervention (T1) and after the intervention (T2) to measure the effectiveness of the respective learning methods. IBM SPSS version 28 and GraphPad Prism version 9.0 were used to collect, tabulate, and analyze the data. By using descriptive analysis, the normality of the data was checked. Knowledge score and age were described as mean and standard deviation (SD) for numerical data. On the contrary, the categorical data, such as gender and group categories, were reported as frequencies and percentages. Fisher's exact test, paired t-test, and one-way ANOVA test were used in this study to determine the significance between groups. The study's results indicated a statistically significant improvement (P < 0.05) in knowledge scores at T2 compared to T1 for both G1 and G2 when compared to G3. However, there were no significant differences in knowledge scores between all groups for T1 or T2. In conclusion, gamification through a web-based online game may improve understanding of Trichomonas vaginalis infection. It looks to be a promising strategy for boosting students' knowledge and awareness to recognize Trichomonas vaginalis infection in cytology.

Educational Story-Based Game for Capturing the Learner's Personality

In recent years with the help of digital games there is an increasing interest in creating Serious Games for learning through play. With the help of machine learning algorithms, an educational serious game can be used, not only to assist the learner in his/her studies, but also to extract insights about the learner's personality. In game-based learning we take into account that the student behaves differently according to his/her individual characteristics while learning by playing. The most used method to model the learner’s personality is the self-report using questionnaires. The drawback of this approach is that the learner may not assess himself correctly or his/her answers’ may be biased towards the more socially acceptable responses rather than being truthful. In this paper, we explore the idea of having an alternative method of learning a person’s personality model and thus to better create interactive and engaging methods to assist learners in their studies. A story-based game with gamified learning elements was created for helping the learners study and evaluate their knowledge in the programming language C. The students learn by evaluating code snippets and depending on their response the game would give constructive feedback. At the same time students’ in-game behavior is captured and thus their personality traits could be determined. For modeling the learner’s personality we used the Five-Factor Model (OCEAN), a taxonomy of five personality traits (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism), each of which combines many personality characteristics. To evaluate the efficiency of the proposed serious game, we gathered data from 107 first year Computer Science students from the University of Macedonia. The students played the game and filled in the Big Five Inventory (BFI) questionnaire to capture their OCEAN traits. The BFI questionnaire was used as a ground truth. After the data gathering, we used machine learning techniques and also classification algorithms to create our model. The goodness of the model was assessed using different metrics and the results showed that it is effective to model both the extraversion and openness personality dimensions using serious games instead of questionnaires.

Study on the Use of UI to Enhance Immersion in Story-based Games

Study on the Use of UI to Enhance Immersion in Story-based Games

RPG and Story-based Game in Game Development

Abstract: In these days video games are most popular and today most of the people spend their time playing video games. A Game can have multiple Genre like Adventure, action, Puzzle or RPG games where they can become the main protagonist. Do computer games tell stories or not and how to make a game more use a storytelling adventure having limitless possible creativity and art. Any one can share their story with game development. Keywords: Game Development, RPG games, Story Based Games, Video Games

Organization of recreational and health handball classes for boys of primary school age in the conditions of children's sports

The article is devoted to the construction of a program of recreational and health activities for boys of primary school age based on the use of handball. The purpose of the study is to theoretically substantiate and develop a program of classes based on the use of handball for boys of primary school age, aimed at organizing active leisure, increasing the level of physical activity of children. Methods and organization of research - analysis and generalization of special scientific and methodological literature, documentary materials, sociological (questionnaires, expert surveys), pedagogical research methods (pedagogical observation, pedagogical experiment), methods of mathematical statistics.&#x0D; The proposed program of classes includes 3 main parts: theoretical, practical and cognitive and covers a number of activities that affect the involvement of children in recreational and health activities, different from the existing degree of development, structure and content. The duration of classes was 30-45 minutes. The frequency of classes was 2 times a week. Among the funds used a series of fun handball exercises: tennis and soccer ball relays, mobile games, competitions, sports quizzes, entertainment events, holidays, story-based role-playing games. The variety of means of the program, namely special exercises aimed at getting acquainted with the technique of handball, allowed to attract boys of primary school age to recreational and health activities, to promote a positive attitude to a healthy lifestyle and physical activity.

A comparative analysis of tools for developing location based games

The extended usage of mobile digital devices has nowadays become commonplace. Location-based games make the most of the mobile technologies by being played solely on mobile devices. The ever-growing interest for this type of applications goes beyond the mere goal of player entertainment, even reaching to the advocacy of civilization, research and education. In this article, three of the most famous and modern authoring tools for location-based games, Taleblazer, ARIS and Unity with Mapbox, are studied in-depth. The objective is to produce a comparative analysis of the aforementioned tools. Game developers may refer to this analysis to opt for the appropriate tool based on their needs, goals and technical expertise. In order to better understand the tool functionality and thus construct a reliable comparison framework, three game prototypes have been implemented. The results have shown that all studied tools provide the mechanics to develop location-based interactive experiences. Nevertheless, significant differences exist in their functionality, in their coding requirements, and in the extent of their respective learning curves. In conclusion, TaleBlazer seems to favor educational role-based games while ARIS favors hybrid story-based games. Unity with Mapbox, in turn, favors the development of recreational action-based games.

Differentiating between the “Need” for and the “Experience” of Self-determination Regarding Their Influence on Pupils’ Learning of Creativity through Story-based Digital Games

ABSTRACT Self-determination (SD) and game-based learning have attracted great attention, and recent investigation studies have shown that SD is closely related to flow and mastery experience. This study pioneered at developing a game-based learning program with an emphasis on SD intervention, in which comprehensive creativity strategies within a story context were presented. Through this training program, we further differentiated between the ways that the SD need before the training and the SD experience during the training influenced flow and mastery experience pertaining to creativity. The participants were 82 third and fourth graders. The results showed that the SD experience was a better predictor of the pupils’ flow and mastery experience than the SD need, suggesting the importance of implementing SD intervention to maximize the game-based creativity learning. The developed training program and the proposed theoretical framework provide valuable implications for the instruction of creativity.

Effects of Gender on Perception and Interpretation of Video Game Character Behavior and Emotion

Gender in video games is a popular topic. However, the focus is usually on how gender is portrayed within games. In this paper, we examine the effects of players' gender on the perception of virtual character behavior and emotion based on the results of two user studies involving story-based games. The first study compared players' perception of virtual character behaviors. We analyzed perceived differences both by gender and by gaming experience. In this study, we found that female gamers were more appreciative of complex behaviors than male gamers. In the second study, we examined the influence of gender on player' ability to identify the emotion being displayed by a virtual character. We found that most emotions were identified comparably, with the exception of anger. Female players were significantly better at identifying angry characters compared to male players. We also investigated any perception differences between emotions expressed by male and female virtual characters, but we did not identify any statistically significant differences. Overall, the studies suggest that there are differences in how male and female players perceive virtual characters, and if game designers want players to perceive these characters in a certain way, they should consider the gender of targeted players.

Funktionen von Sound in Computerspielen

The sound of video games has changed from the use of a small range of different sounds via chiptune music to the current standard of adaptive sound design and opulent orchestral sound. Apart from aesthetic and commercial dimensions, sound in video games also fulfils concrete ludic and narrative functions. Perhaps most saliently, it contributes to the atmosphere of virtual spaces and helps players to more strongly empathize with game events and the characters they control. This article focuses on the various functions of sound in story-based video games, distinguishing between the auditive components of noise, music, and speech.

Effectiveness of E-Learning in Teaching Chemistry with Reference to Quality of Picture and Video

The effectiveness of e-learning program is teaching advanced picture and video production is an art that requires great sensitivity to the process of providing constructive knowledge that helps students to learn and grow. Some students experience difficulty in developing narrative sequences or determinants of motion picture and video. But when students learn to work jointly through the revision process as part of an advanced video production course in senior higher secondary school, they tend to develop higher expectations for the quality of their academic work and apply a more rigorous framework of analysis to the media messages they encounter, including fiction motion pictures documentary films, story-based interactive games, and short-form platforms such as commercials or music videos of the chemistry subjects. The researcher desires that more number of educational institutions should teach the topic Chemistry by using on-line method and make the process of teaching and learning more effective based on the quality of picture and video to maintain the effectiveness of E-learning in teaching chemistry.

Games, Stories and Language: Motivating Second Language Acquisition With Play

This paper reports a design case for a story-driven language learning game called Arena. Arena was developed in the design science tradition, where purpose-built artifacts are used as a springboard for scientific inquiry. As such, Arena is a vehicle for designers and researchers to study the effectiveness of story-based games for engaging learners, as well as to explore some of the various challenges that manifest when designing and implementing gameful educational experiences. In this design case, we—myself, as author, and by extension, my design team of 14 undergraduate developers and researchers—report on the theoretical underpinnings of Arena and then draw contrasts between these and our experiences as practical designers. The contrasts we note include: (a) second language storytelling as a wicked challenge, (b) managing competing requirements for ease-of-use versus meaningful learning and engagement, (c) making playful connections between play and work, (d) the subtle impact of player point of view, and (e) designing for our target demographic of young male gamers.

Points, stories, worlds, and diegesis: Comparing player experiences in two citizen science games

We conducted an experiment to examine how people perceive differences between points-based and story-based gamification approaches. We were interested in how these differences impact peoples’ play experiences and perceptions of working on a citizen science task.Our findings show that the story-based game, Forgotten Island, was strongly preferred over the points-based game, Happy Match. Participants indicated that this was because of “diegesis” in Forgotten Island – in other words, a focus on story-motivated activities and rewards made the citizen science task more enjoyable and gave participants various reasons to continue play.This study suggests that story-based games can be a powerful tool for attracting participants to citizen science tasks. In particular, compared to point-based games, story-based games may be more useful for attracting and engaging participants who are ambivalent about scientific inquiry. This paper also discusses some of the challenges and possibilities for both points-based and story-based gamification.

Personalized Interactive Narratives via Sequential Recommendation of Plot Points

In story-based games or other interactive systems, a drama manager (DM) is an omniscient agent that acts to bring about a particular sequence of plot points for the player to experience. Traditionally, the DM's narrative evaluation criteria are solely derived from a human designer. We present a DM that learns a model of the player's storytelling preferences and automatically recommends a narrative experience that is predicted to optimize the player's experience while conforming to the human designer's storytelling intentions. Our DM is also capable of manipulating the space of narrative trajectories such that the player is more likely to make choices that result in the recommended experience. Our DM uses a novel algorithm, called prefix-based collaborative filtering (PBCF), that solves the sequential recommendation problem to find a sequence of plot points that maximizes the player's rating of his or her experience. We evaluate our DM in an interactive storytelling environment based on choose-your-own-adventure novels. Our experiments show that our algorithms can improve the player's experience over the designer's storytelling intentions alone and can deliver more personalized experiences than other interactive narrative systems while preserving players' agency.

Immersive hand hygiene trainer for physicians – a story-based serious game

Hand hygiene is a simple yet often omitted gesture to prevent pathogen transmission and healthcare-associated infections. Training healthcare workers in hand hygiene is a key element in any multifaceted promotion strategy. Physicians are notoriously known for their underperformance in this field. We sought to design a natural immersive environment to improve physicians’ hand hygiene performance.

Learning Companion Behaviors Using Reinforcement Learning in Games

Our goal is to enable Non Player Characters (NPC) in computer games to exhibit natural behaviors. The quality of behaviors affects the game experience especially in story-based games, which rely on player-NPC interactions. We used Reinforcement Learning to enable NPC companions to develop preferences for actions. We implemented our RL technique in BioWare Corp.’s Neverwinter Nights. Our experiments evaluate an NPC companion’s behaviors regarding traps. Our method enables NPCs to rapidly learn reasonable behaviors and adapt to changes in the game.

Bringing Interactive Storytelling to Industry: Designing a Reactive Narrative Encounter System

The commercial games industry is struggling to find a form of narrative for single-player story-based games that takes advantage of the medium. Current methods are limited to structured narrative or simulation, both of which have serious game design constraints. Drama Management represents a potential new model. This talk will cover the author's research into bringing interactive storytelling to single-player story games. Focusing on the design and production needs of current titles, different groups of pen-and-paper RPG Game Masters were studied, and their interactive narrative approach was algorithmically replicated for video game storytelling on a per-encounter level. To verify these results, an “Encounter Manager” pen-and-paper algorithm was tested in place of a human Game Master, achieving similar storytelling results and exposing new conclusions. Implementing these techniques in several video game projects has shown diverse payoffs, not just in narrative, replayability, and pacing but also in risk-reduction, art production, open world and linear level design, and new game genres. However, the uncertainty and risk of a new model of game production combined with the lack of a driving need in commercial games has so far proven a major hurdle for this approach. Looking forward, similarities with other procedural narrative efforts are explored, and future steps are proposed.

Supporting Dialogue Generation for Story-Based Games

Providing compelling, realistic, immersive game worlds is one of the major goals in modern game design. The presence of unique and interesting dialogue for all of the characters in a game enhances this sense of immersion. In this paper we present the concept of an “Intentional Dialogue Line” that supports the efficient generation of multiple variations of a dialogue, where these variations are both unique and appropriate to the character who is speaking them. This paper focuses on how machine learning can be used to quickly polines with existing content.