Report on Game Design: Understanding Academic Integrity Concepts

This report outlines the design of a game aimed at educating students about academic integrity and its significance in university life. The game, titled 'Pass the Object,' involves two teams passing a ball while music plays; when the music stops, the player holding the ball must answer a question related to academic integrity. The report emphasizes the importance of academic integrity in avoiding plagiarism, misconduct, and unethical activities, fostering an environment of trust, honesty, respect, responsibility, and fairness. It also discusses various skills utilized in the game's design, such as critical thinking, teamwork, presentation skills, and problem-solving. The conclusion reiterates the game's effectiveness in making the concept of academic integrity understandable and enjoyable for students, along with the importance of ethical behavior in their academic and future professional careers. The report references several academic sources to support its claims and findings.

Game Design

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Game Design...............................................................................................................................3
Game setting................................................................................................................................3
How to play?...............................................................................................................................3
Instruction of game.....................................................................................................................3
Why Academic integrity is important to understand?.................................................................4
Skills used in designing of game.................................................................................................5
Questions.....................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Academic integrity is a process of learning and educating the at the University by
following the ethical principles and laws. A student is required to follow all the rules and
regulations of the academy which will help them to make their definite career. The academic
integration is performed by the students to avoid the plagiarism, misconduct and cheating which
will help them to obtain the higher marks in the graduation and can also be able to perform well
in the future professional level. The report will illustrate the process of designing a game which
help to understand the academic integrity and its importance in the students life and at university
as well.
MAIN BODY
Game Design
Pass the object
Game setting
A game is based on the ball. The game is passing the object where each individual person has to
pass the ball to another player and goes on till the music has been stopped. As, music stopped a
person who carries the ball has to answer the questions which are already made by the players
and kept the question notes in the box.
How to play?
This game is between the two teams and each team has 4 players. Each team are lines up
alternatively and one player from one team is holding the ball which is the passing object. After
setting this sitting arrangement a music system is also required as the music starts to play the first
player starts to pass the object to another alternative player and so on. As, the music will stop a
player who carries the ball have to take a question note from the box and has to answer it
correctly. A team who has given higher number of correct answer of the questions will win the
game. It has not restricted that music will play for any number of time, and it can be for 2 min or
for 5 min but as the music stop, a player having the ball has to answer the question. A person
who is playing the music will be turned around and does not have to see the playing game.
Instruction of game
 There has been two teams and having 4 members of each team.

 A player who carries the ball has to answer the question and will not pass by other team
member.
 A person who is playing the music cannot turn around and see the game.
 Player who is not able to give the correct answer of the question will get the minus
marking.
 No repeated question will be asked.
Why Academic integrity is important to understand?
An academic integrity is an activity who enable the students and teacher to perform at university.
It allows the staff, teacher and students to follow the academic community which includes the
trust, honesty, respect, responsibility and fairness which helps in avoiding the plagiarism and
misconduct at the academy. It is required to be implemented in the academy which can avoid the
failure and unethical activities. Each and every place has its own rules and regulation and
similarly in university also it is necessary to follow and adopt the academic integrity in the
academics (Eaton, 2021). Plagiarism and cheating is a major issue and unethical activity
performed in the academy which result the people and students to be failure. Following the rules
and regulation of the educating campus can make the students to obtain the higher grades in the
examinations and also can obtain the benefits by enhancing their skills and abilities. Avoidance
of plagiarism and cheating can create a peaceful and stressed out environment at the university
and provide an education and learning surroundings. There are some ethics and principles for
every place and activity and required to be performed (Tripathi and Patel, 2021). It shows a kind
of students and people behaviour and their honestly and sincerity related to the learning and
dedication towards the career goals. To get the excellent result and positivity around requires to
maintain and follows the rules and regulations which has been implemented in the premises. For
learning and educating honestly and respect is majorly required to adopt which will allow a
student, teacher and learner to get the opportunities and a well-structured faculty. Students who
do not follow the rules and regulation and breaks the policies are not able to get the desired
marks and results. Making a good communication and understanding behaviour to all people and
students can make a positive image and encourages the ethical practices in the University (Zhang
and et.al., 2021). Students who perform the academic integration in the learning places have
opportunities to grow themselves accurately and can obtain the higher marks in the graduation. It
helps the student to have a very good start of their career by performing and behaving in ethical

way which will enable them to be a professional in their career. Avoidance of plagiarism,
misconduct and unethical practices will lead the student to become more capable and effective in
the future.
Skills used in designing of game
Skills are the abilities and strengthening behaviour who allows an individual to make a good
understandable project and assignment (Crossman and et.al., 2019). There are wide range of
skills which is very helpful for me and for an individual person. During the formation of game, I
utilized many kinds of skills which helps me to create a game in definite order.
Critical thinking: The critical thinking skill helped me to create an ideology of making and
designing of a game. This skill is an analysis of the idea or situation which is performed into
action by collection of different data and information through various resources. For making this
game, I have to use my analysing power and ability which helps me to discover the game and its
effectiveness which can provide me to get the effective results (Pezhynska, 2021). The skill
required a well-defined gathering of the ideas and belief to turn the though into the action. My
critical analysation design a game in definite order and can be able to present it in accurate way.
Team work: The team work skill is the best and very effective ability which I think I had. This
is a skill where it helps the people and individual to perform the work in a group of people and
can get the beneficial results. I had planned and designed the game in a form of team which
helped me a lot to do and get the best results. My friends help in making the game structure and
in creating a good understanding of the game with the effective results. Working as a team
makes me to get the solution of any kind of obstacle and issue easily and not have to get tensed
cause of any problem. I personally founded that team working is the best way to perform any
activity and working and will definitely result in excellent manner.
Presentation skill: During the game making I also able to perform my presentation skill which
helps me to deliver an effective and understanding detailed about the game and its instructions.
By implementing my presentation skill I am able to interact with the people and can connect
them in definite way which helps me to clarify the speech and description of the game structure.
This skill makes me to engage and perform the presentation in effective manner.
Problem solving: During the game making, I experienced that I am able to solve the problem in
effective manner and can provide the effectiveness (Spencer, 2021). I got some problem in the
researching of the game formation which makes to feel quite stressed but it founded that

analysing and collection the accurate information can help me to resolve the obstacle in definite
order.
Questions
What does term integrity mean?
The term refers as an honesty and trust who follows the ethical principles in any activity.
Is performing a plagiarism is lawful?
No, performing the plagiarism and misconduct is against the law and rules and have to avoid the
cheating in academics.
What do you understand by plagiarism?
Plagiarism is an unethical activity and process which is performed by an individual which is
against the rules and regulations.
What are the five values of academic integrity?
The five values are trust, honestly, fairness, respect and responsibility.
CONCLUSION
The report has concluded a detailed structure and importance of the academic integrity
and its effectiveness in the student life. It includes an ideology report has mentioned the game
which help the students to understand the academic integration concept and its importance in
their life. Along with this, it is also included the various kinds of skills which helps me to make a
game and also can be able to support me in the academic works. For making an understanding
process of the academic integrity an ideology of designing a game can be very effective from
which students also can enjoy and can learn about the academic integration.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Crossman and et.al., 2019. Academic Integrity: Faculty Development Needs for Canadian
Higher Education-Research Project Brief.
Eaton, S.E., 2021. Plagiarism in higher education: Tackling tough topics in academic integrity.
ABC-CLIO.
Pezhynska, O., 2021. Academic integrity and ethics of academic relationships in higher
education institutions.
Spencer, M., 2021. Integrating Academic Integrity into Future Professions. Canadian
Perspectives on Academic Integrity. 4(2). pp.78-78.
Tripathi, S. and Patel, D., 2021. Academic integrity: looking beyond plagiarism. Annals of
Library and Information Studies (ALIS). 68(2). pp.190-197.
Zhang and et.al., 2021. The next steps in academic integrity—education, awareness, norms, duty
and law. Forensic Sciences Research, pp.1-6.