e-Bug Senior Game
Senior Game • Game Style • Game Process • Demo • Game Puzzles and Learning Outcomes • Feedback to date and evaluation plans
Game Style • Game is a detective game where the player investigates microbial problems. • Player is presented with many ideas or theories which are confirmed or contradicted by evidence. • Story and puzzle based game • Has “microbe vision” which allows player to see bugs • Can perform 3 mini-game tests which can be used to identify microbes
Game Process • Player is given missions by “Big C” who is the boss. • The player and Alyx (scientist) fly to locations • They interview people and look for physical clues • By finding clues, the story moves on. • At the end of the mission, the player is asked a series of questions by Big C that can be used to confirm knowledge gain
Game Back Story • A call has come in to e-Bug HQ. • A famous actor has fallen very ill and his security people suspect a deliberate act of poison • Big C dispatches the player and Alyx to investigate.
Characters: Big C • Big C (boss of e-Bug)
Characters: Alyx • Alyx (scientist coworker)
Character: Heracles Samson • Heracles (bodyguard to actors)
Characters: Hugh Gaego • Hugh Gaego (actor)
Jamie Grimesworth • Jamie Grimesworth (chef)
Example Mockup • Showing Learning Outcomes: • Microbes are found everywhere even though you can’t see them • There are three types of microbe (B, V and F) • Sometimes bad microbes can make us sick • Don’t spread your bad microbes to others • Also covers some food hygiene outcomes not in the pack: • Microbes can be found on our food and can transfer to humans • Cooking food properly can kill harmful microbes
Mission 1 • Mission 1 was basis of the demo. • Set around a barbeque and covers: • Hygiene • Spread of infection • Introduction to microbes
Mechanics • Hand, Respiratory and Food Hygiene o Infection can be spread through unclean hands o Hand washing can prevent the spread of infection o Infection can be spread through sneezing and coughing o Sneezing or coughing in your hand can still spread infection o Microbes can be found on our food and can transfer to humans o Cooking food properly can kill harmful microbes
Mission 2
Mission 2 • Mission 2 introduces a ‘superbug’ • Aim is for the player to identify that in places where there is high antibiotic misuse, resistant bugs are present • Story starts off in an airport where one person (Allison) was on a flight with someone sick with the bug. • The player visits a site of good practice and a site of bad practice and finds clues that show why the ‘bad’ practice is bad • Later, the player performs a ‘mini game’ that shows that the superbug is different because it isn’t killed by the normal antibiotics
Mission 2: Characters • Allison (sporty girl) • Emerges later on that she’s infected with the superbug
Mission 2: Characters Dr Pia Diallo ( French Doctor) • Town suffering from superbug • Evidence in her office of in appropriate antibiotic use
Mission 2 Characters • Dr Emmet Brun (Danish Doctor) • Example of good behavior with antibiotics
Mission 3 • Mission 3 connects poor antibiotic use to real world behavior. • The story involves • Sports team fallen ill • Sabotage suspected but not the case • Allison (from last mission) stopped taking antibiotics, causing her illness to come back. • She gave water to sports team, spreading bug • Her coach took her antibiotics for a virus and now has bad diarrhea
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