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Serious Gordon Using Serious Games To Teach Food Safety In The Kitchen, Brian Mac Namee, Pauline Rooney, Patrick Lindstrom, Andrew Ritchie, Frances Boylan, Greg Burke
Serious Gordon Using Serious Games To Teach Food Safety In The Kitchen, Brian Mac Namee, Pauline Rooney, Patrick Lindstrom, Andrew Ritchie, Frances Boylan, Greg Burke
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This paper will describe the development of Serious Gordon, an interactive digital game developed to tech the basics of kitchen food safety to workers in industries dealing with food. The motivations driving the development of the game will be described as will the development process itself. An initial evaluation of the game, from both a technical and pedagogical point of view, will be presented as will conclusions on the viability of using a commercial game engine for the purpose of developing educational games.
Serious Gordon: Using Serious Games To Teach Food Safety In The Kitchen., Brian Mac Namee, Pauline Rooney, Patrick Lindstrom, Andrew Ritchie, Frances Boylan, Greg Burke
Serious Gordon: Using Serious Games To Teach Food Safety In The Kitchen., Brian Mac Namee, Pauline Rooney, Patrick Lindstrom, Andrew Ritchie, Frances Boylan, Greg Burke
Conference papers
This paper will describe the development of Serious Gordon, an interactive digital game developed to tech the basics of kitchen food safety to workers in industries dealing with food. The motivations driving the development of the game will be described as will the development process itself. An initial evaluation of the game, from both a technical and pedagogical point of view, will be presented as will conclusions on the viability of using a commercial game engine for the purpose of developing educational games.
Using The Source Engine For Serious Games, Andrew Ritchie, Patrick Lindstrom, Bryan Duggan
Using The Source Engine For Serious Games, Andrew Ritchie, Patrick Lindstrom, Bryan Duggan
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In this paper we describe our work in using the Source engine from the game Half Life 2 to develop a serious game -Serious Gordon. Serious Gordon is used to teach principalsof food safety and food hygiene in a restaurant kitchen environment.The target users of Serious Gordon are students of catering in the DIT Faculty of Tourism and Food. Thepaper describes the formation of the Serious Gordon teamand the development of a story for the game. It continueswith a description of the features from Half Life 2 that we retained and those that we removed for the game. We then …