Designing The Rat Attack Game for Studying Academic Integrity

This report discusses the design of The Rat Attack game for studying academic integrity and the importance of academic integrity in university. It provides a game scenario and game instruction for playing the game. The report also analyzes the required skills for game designing and their importance in developing the game. The subject is academic integrity and the course code is BMP3003-2.

BMP3003-2

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Design of the game......................................................................................................................3
Game Scenario.............................................................................................................................3
How to play the game?................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
Game instruction..........................................................................................................................4
Academic Integrity Importance in University.............................................................................4
Analysis of the required skills for game designing.....................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Plagiarism is defined as cheating someone's data as the own data. To avoid the
plagiarism, the individual should conduct the academic assessment in its own words. There will
be the breach of the journalistic ethics and the academic integrity due to the consideration of
violation of plagiarism. To perform the academic integrity students must study and task the
performance. Due to the misconduct of the plagiarism and the academic integrity there will
affect in the trust between the student and the teacher (El-Muwalla and Badran, 2020).
Thus, the report will provide the design of the game in relation with the plagiarism and
the academic misconduct. The report will provide the importance of the academic integrity and
required skills will analyse for the design of the game. Further, the report will include the
scenario of the game and the game instruction for playing the game.
TASK 1
Design of the game
The Rat Attack
Game Scenario
Journals, novels, books, autobiographies are such academic materials which were
contained in the library. The integrity was destroyed by the rat attack to the academic
misconduct. To maintain the academic integrity, the participants were asked to clear the library
and get rid of the rats.
How to play the game?
To play the games there must be individuals available to play game. The game is not
designed to play for the team or groups. In the library the rats were hidden at different places.
Every individual who is playing the game has 15 minutes to play the game. Individual has to tap
on different areas to find the hidden rats. An individual who tap on the right area will get an
MCQ format questions. The rat will be trapped when the individual game the correct answers.
Rat will be disappeared from the place whenever the individual fails to answer the question. To
every correct answer there will be 10 points and for every wrong answer there will be no points
to the individual. There will be three rounds for the game and in each round there will be 5 rats.
The individual who scores more points and at least points will be the winner of the game.

TASK 2
Game instruction
Several instructions are there for playing the game. The instructions are as follows:
 7 individuals can play the game at a time.
 Tapping on the different areas will appear the rat.
 Every individual has to play three rounds for qualifying the game.
 Answering every correct answer will capture the rat and fail to answer will disappear the
rat.
 At least one correct answer should be given in every round to qualify for the game.
 Individual will get 10 points on every correct answer and no minus marking on incorrect
answer.
 The player who has the highest points will be the winner.
 The two individual score the same marks the winner will be based on the least time taken
by individual.
Academic Integrity Importance in University
New ideas, knowledge can be generated in the academic integrity by the staff and the
individual. Other's work can be acknowledged by respecting to the creative works. Fair,
transparent, consistent and in the timely manner the academic misconduct will be responded by
the University. Doing the task in the honest attitude will give an individual the best chance to
improve itself. University view effect the way of working of students and the study of staff in the
University. To the assessment and the standard of course the University must be trustworthy and
consistent (Egan, 2018). It will the graduate with degree to build the confidence among the
people in the community. The University thus takes the academic misconduct issue very
seriously. The students who achieved the high standards will feel proud while graduating from
the University. Students will able to identify that the learning was based on the respect and the
trust of the degree and the foundation of the degree will be respected.
Academic integrity is important because the trust, honesty and the respect was
underpinned in the good academic. Maintaining of the academic integrity help in developing the
new research and the ideas and will acknowledge about the creation of the idea. Individual does
not learn anything if it copies someone else tasks due to which it will not able to develop the
academic integrity (Stoesz and et.al., 2019). Every person contribution should be acknowledged

as the creation of the knowledge by many peoples. Compared to the others the individual who
copies someone else data will not able to learn and develop the new concepts. The credit will be
given to the individual whose data and the information was used by the individual. Individual
understanding of the material can be identified through the learning of the individuals from the
ideas of the incorporation of other peoples and framing the ideas and the research in the own
work. Academic integrity respected while working with the others acknowledge.
Analysis of the required skills for game designing
To design the game, it requires some skills. Some skills which requires to design the
academic game are the time management skills, critical thinking, effective communication,
creativity and the presentation skills. To design the game completely there should be the
management of the time. The quick decisions should be taken for the design of the game.
Planning and the strategies were involved in designing of the game. To build the game the
players were expected of finding the obstacles and the tasks. With the critical mind set I need to
approach the concept of the simple game. To success the game design I should able to
communicate effectively to better understand the game to the audience (Topalli and Cagiltay,
2018). The lack of effective communication will affect the audience and the participants in
understanding the game and playing the game. Designing the game simple will help the people in
easily understanding the game. I should design the game which includes both the fun and the
study.
Designing the game in both the fun and academic way it requires the skills of creativity.
The creativity skills are necessary in the design of the game as the players will be not much
interested in playing the game if there will be no creativity in the game. The design of the game
should be properly presented to the audience without proper presentation the game will look
untidy and will not able to understand to the individual (Noroozi, Dehghanzadeh and Talaee,
2020). Through the creativity skills I can design the game in well manner and able to present the
game to the audience through the effective communication skills. All the skills should be linked
with each other to develop the proper design of the game. I developed various skills while
forming the plan for designing the game. Thus, while designing the game I noticed that I have to
develop several skills.
The skills which I have to develop are the critical thinking skills as to design the game it
will be must have required skills. All the skills will further help me in my academics and will

learn more. Skills which I already have the creativity skills, presentation skills and the
management skills. The management skills I used everywhere to manage my time and work
effectively. Management skills help in learning more in my academics. The presentation skills
were developed in me while presenting the projects in the University in front of the students. I
learn from them a lot for developing the skills (Topalli and Cagiltay, 2018). The creativity skills
are required in the University to show the project in the well-mannered. It increases the
impression when there is the creativity in the project. The individuals were more interested in the
projects which shows creativity. The skill of the effective communication was developed while
presenting the game as the communication skill is the essential skill. Communication skills helps
to communicate the game plan with the other members.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that academic integrity concept is important
for the student lives. Avoiding the plagiarism students will able to develop its character. The
report designed the game of The Rat Attack to study the academic integrity. Further, the report
provides the reflection on the design of the game. Further, the report evaluated the required skills
for the design of the game. Taking someone's idea and generating in the own new idea will help
in developing the individual in own learning.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Noroozi, O., Dehghanzadeh, H. and Talaee, E., 2020. A systematic review on the impacts of
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Stoesz, B.M., and et.al., 2019. Academic integrity and contract cheating policy analysis of
colleges in Ontario, Canada. International Journal for Educational Integrity. 15(1). pp.1-
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Topalli, D. and Cagiltay, N.E., 2018. Improving programming skills in engineering education
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