Design Ideas from Commercial Games

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Design Ideas from Commercial Games

• Demos and Discussion
• Pauline Brutlag
• Program Manager, SUMMIT
• Stanford University School of Medicine

August 24, 2006 Designing Case-based Learning for
Virtual Worlds Stanford University, Wallenberg
Hall
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Video Game Genres

• Platformers
• Simulation
• Action/Adventure
• Fighting
• First-person shooter
• Racing and Sports
• Rhythm

• Role-playing games
• Massive multi-player online (MMO)
• MMORPG
• MMOFPS
• Puzzle
• Strategy
• God games

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Tetris - timed puzzle game

• Invented by Alexey Pazhitnov, 1985, Academy of
  Sciences, Moscow
• Mainstream exposure in 1989 with Nintendos
  version for Game Boy
• This version alone sold 33 million units (second
  best selling game of all time after Super Mario
  Bros.)
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris

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Super Monkey Ball - platformer

• Dr. James Rosser, Beth Israel Medical Center
• video-game players make better laparoscopic
  surgeons
• Those trained on Super Monkey Ball, as compared
  to their non-gaming counterparts
• Scored 40 percent higher on a laparoscopic
  suture-training course
• Had 37 percent reduction in errors
• Performed their surgery 27 percent faster
• http//www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,66086,00.
  html

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Trauma Center Under the KnifeNintendo DS -
timed puzzle
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Fable - RPG, puzzle, fighting
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ER Game - RPG, puzzle
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Dance Dance Revolution - rhythm

• http//www.getupmove.com/

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Journey to Wild Divine
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World of Warcraft - MMORPG