An Educational Video Game Based on Basic Principle of Biology

Video games have been extremely attractive to gamers of all ages, especially the young ones. They spend much time playing such games for pleasure and entertainment. Thus, this paper aims to gamify education by incorporating 3D video games elements into science subjects. Science subjects such as B...

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Main Authors: Noor Ain, Rosly, Amirul Azuani, Romlee, Lim, Zhi Yue
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Language:English
Published: INTI International University 2019
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author Noor Ain, Rosly
Amirul Azuani, Romlee
Lim, Zhi Yue
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Amirul Azuani, Romlee
Lim, Zhi Yue
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description Video games have been extremely attractive to gamers of all ages, especially the young ones. They spend much time playing such games for pleasure and entertainment. Thus, this paper aims to gamify education by incorporating 3D video games elements into science subjects. Science subjects such as Biology have always been visualize by students to be difficult because there are a lot of concept and processes to be memorized. This leads to lack of interest in learning Biology Science subject among students in Malaysia. This application focuses on microorganism topic. Apart from that, the elements of effective educational video game design in terms of motivation, narrative of context, goals and rules and interactivity to further engage student in their learning process will be discussed. The benefit of student-generated activities using 3D video games and Biology subject for secondary school explained further in this paper. Playing video games, as a lifestyle habit, by respondents shows an association with positive attitude. In other words, those who play video games themselves are more likely to have favorable attitudes toward using those games for education.
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spelling intimal-19812024-08-14T08:27:37Z http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/1981/ An Educational Video Game Based on Basic Principle of Biology Noor Ain, Rosly Amirul Azuani, Romlee Lim, Zhi Yue L Education (General) QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science QA76 Computer software Video games have been extremely attractive to gamers of all ages, especially the young ones. They spend much time playing such games for pleasure and entertainment. Thus, this paper aims to gamify education by incorporating 3D video games elements into science subjects. Science subjects such as Biology have always been visualize by students to be difficult because there are a lot of concept and processes to be memorized. This leads to lack of interest in learning Biology Science subject among students in Malaysia. This application focuses on microorganism topic. Apart from that, the elements of effective educational video game design in terms of motivation, narrative of context, goals and rules and interactivity to further engage student in their learning process will be discussed. The benefit of student-generated activities using 3D video games and Biology subject for secondary school explained further in this paper. Playing video games, as a lifestyle habit, by respondents shows an association with positive attitude. In other words, those who play video games themselves are more likely to have favorable attitudes toward using those games for education. INTI International University 2019 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_4 http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/1981/1/ij2019_68.pdf Noor Ain, Rosly and Amirul Azuani, Romlee and Lim, Zhi Yue (2019) An Educational Video Game Based on Basic Principle of Biology. INTI JOURNAL, 2019 (68). pp. 1-4. ISSN e2600-7320 https://intijournal.intimal.edu.my
spellingShingle L Education (General)
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA76 Computer software
Noor Ain, Rosly
Amirul Azuani, Romlee
Lim, Zhi Yue
An Educational Video Game Based on Basic Principle of Biology
title An Educational Video Game Based on Basic Principle of Biology
title_full An Educational Video Game Based on Basic Principle of Biology
title_fullStr An Educational Video Game Based on Basic Principle of Biology
title_full_unstemmed An Educational Video Game Based on Basic Principle of Biology
title_short An Educational Video Game Based on Basic Principle of Biology
title_sort educational video game based on basic principle of biology
topic L Education (General)
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA76 Computer software
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