A team of Interactive Entertainment (BS-IET) students from De La Salle University (DLSU) were selected as finalists for Game On 2022, showcasing their work in the Electronic Sports and Gaming Summit (ESGS) 2022 held last October 28 to 30, 2022 at the SMX Convention Center.
The team was composed of John Erick Alemany, Raina Cally Ang, Warren Luceñara, Bryan Manese and Jean Ryan Bernal, and advised by Ryan Samuel Dimaunahan, faculty of the Department of Software Technology – College of Computer Studies and Dr. Laurenzo Alba, faculty of the DLSU Chemistry Department – College of Science. They created a learning serious game entitled “Eureka: The Time I got into a Lab Accident and became a Chemistry Wizard”. In the game, you play as Ricka’s lab partner, sent to another world as a result of a science experiment that went wrong. Utilizing your chemistry knowledge, you embark on a journey rife with perils and challenges as you try to make your way back home. The game combines the deck building and card battle mechanics of card games like Hearthstone or Legends of Runeterra and the creature collection mechanics of games like Pokemon with the concepts of elements and compounds from Senior High School (SHS) Chemistry. The hope is for players to learn about elements and compounds while they play the game.
Game On is an initiative of the Game Developers Association of the Philippines (GDAP) that aims to showcase the best of Filipino talent in the field of game development. Game On has two tracks, one that accepts submissions from Philippine schools and another from professional studios; Eureka was submitted to the former track. Winners will be announced on November 28, 2022. More information may be found in the GDAP Game On 2022 website https://www.gdap.org.ph/game-on/.
As a serious game, Eureka aims to both entertain and educate. Serious games are those games that have another purpose apart from entertainment. The mechanics of the game targets several learning competencies of the Department of Education’s (DepEd) K to 12 SHS STEM Specialized Subject – General Chemistry 1 and 2 curriculum, specifically that of differentiating between elements and compounds (STEM_GC11MPIa-b-7), predicting properties of elements (STEM_GC11MPIa-b-9), recognizing of common chemical formulas (STEM_GC11ESPIIc-d-63), and naming of compounds given their formulas (STEM_GC11AMIc-e-23). The game was developed as the team’s capstone project, the culminating requirement of their Bachelor of Science in Interactive Entertainment undergraduate degree. The team that developed the game was part of the Educational Serious Games Group of DLSU GAME Lab.
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Date(s) - October 28, 2022 (Fri) - October 30, 2022 (Sun)
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