DataDecode
About
Platforms: Web
Engine: HTML5 + XML
Genre: Educational Game
Time: 10 months
Team: 5 members
Description
DataDecode invites the user to carry out a series of missions to understand the notion of data by playing, experimenting, and even programming (text generation, database, literary games, collaborative/asymmetric, data economy).
For example, the player is asked to produce an original augmented text that can potentially be shared, a text where words, images and sounds are put into action under the impulse of commands activated by the user.
Level Design
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Creation of the exercices
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Implementation in the engine of the exercices
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Integration of database of words and images
Challenges
As the only game designer on the project, I had to imagine progressive activities and lessons accessible to children from 9 to 16 years old whatever their starting knowledge in digital and database. This required a lot of pedagogical work to ensure that each child could finish the game.
Quality Assurance
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Testing of the missions and refinement
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Animator and analysis of playtests in Exhibition demonstration and classroom tests
Game Design
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Writing and updating the Game Design Document
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Research and writing on the possible formulas that the players can use
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Proposition of present words and images in the engine
Qualities
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It is a powerful tool, you can make a lot of different exercices
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The creations of the players is easily sharable with the others by the website
Defaults
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I had trouble making exercices for every age of childrens. A lots of refinement and cuts have been made on the exercices.