Serious Topics and Fun Games: Hidden in the Zoo

Niklas Torstensson; Tarja Susi

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Chapter 12 Serious Topics and Fun Games: Hidden in the Zoo

于Culture at Play: How Video Games Influence and Replicate Our World

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Page Range:: 122–129

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004439788_014

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Developing children’s games that concern sensitive subjects such as online sexual grooming obviously poses a number of challenges. Such challenges include, for instance, the sensitivity of the topic itself, the ethics surrounding the subject matter, and the need to bypass inappropriate language while also creating a game that children will want to play. This paper describes a computer game development project in which a game for 8–10-year-old children was created with the purpose to raise young peoples’ risk awareness in online interactions such as multi-user gaming and social networking. The game’s mechanics are based on our extensive studies of naturalistic online dialogues derived from closed-forum dialogues between children and later-convicted perpetrators. The perpetrators’ tactics and strategies were transferred into game events but in a non-sexual and non-violent format. The game, Hidden in the Zoo, combines a classic board game, a computer game, and augmented reality technology. The traditional game board can be viewed on a tablet that transfers the basic picture on the board into an exciting 3D world. The game’s setting is a zoo. To play, each player hides a treasure and is then given a set of clues to the location of the player’s own hiding place. The players need to be mindful of the clues to the hiding place so that other players cannot find their treasure. Beyond this basic game premise, the game also contains messages, similar to online chats or text messages, through which players can choose whether or not to reveal a clue, bearing in mind that revealing a clue may or may not be a good idea in the long run. The game is now a fully playable prototype, and initial results show that the game serves as a tool for generating discussions about possible actions and consequences within the game but also in real life. Hence, the game provides a means to empower young children through raised risk awareness.

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Culture at Play: How Video Games Influence and Replicate Our World

丛编： At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, 卷： 134

ISBN:: 9789004439788

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 06 Nov 2020

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