Game Design Project: Promoting Academic Integrity via Game Design

This game design project aims to educate students about academic integrity and misconduct through an interactive card game. The game involves participants answering questions related to academic misconduct and plagiarism. Players select cards with questions, write on related topics, and are evaluated on content, grammar, and relatability to the subject matter. The goal is to enhance communication, creativity, presentation, and research skills while discouraging plagiarism in academic work. The project emphasizes the importance of academic integrity in universities and highlights how game design can be used to develop skills and solve problems related to academic honesty.

Game design
INTRODUCTION
Game design is defined as the art that is applied for create and develop game for the
purpose of entertainment, experimental purpose, educational as well as exercise. There
are various types of game such as card games, role play game and simulation game.
Academic view point, game design is considered as the part of game studies that
facilitates to students in strategic decision making.
Design game
The main purpose of conducting game is to avoid the activity in plagiarism and other
misconduct for protecting an individual from various legal formulates and penalties.
There are various rules, regulations and instructions are developed to regulate a game
properly it helps to find out plagiarism in academic work of a person. As game is being
produced for develop different skills and capabilities in personality and it is helps
students and teachers to solve problems and perform defined functions appropriately.
Skills used in developing game
There are different type of skills, competencies and capabilities are developed in my
personality during developing the game that reduced that activities of misconduct and
plagiarism in academic work.
• Communication Skills
• Creativity skills
• Presentation skills
• Research skills
Instruction to play game:
• In the process of starting game, it is required to hold cards by the
professor that consist various questions asked to students which are
related to academic misconducts and other activities. One side of cards
various letters are printed such as A, B and C. Participants have to select
one card each time that are shuffled by the professor.
• Each participant of game chose a card randomly and keep them aside
without showing them to other players. As there are equal opportunity is
provided to each participant of game to pick cards of their choice.
• Five players can play this game at a time and it is required to select a
card among all randomly in first phase of game. After selecting card,
participant need to read questions that are printed on cards are related to
their academic subjects and misconducts. Students have to write on this
topic for 10 minutes.
• After the process of writing on topic, participant who write relatable and
proper content without activity of plagiarism will win the game.
Professor provides marks to each students on the bases of their grammar
used in content, relatability of content and lengths.
As game enhance participant's writing, reading, knowledge and
understanding to relative academic topic. Game also helps to avoid
misconducts and plagiarism form their academic work.
REFERENCES
• Bezchotnikova, S., 2018. Game Mechanics as Videogame Genre Identifier.
• Chang, B. and et. al, 2021, May. CureQuest: A Digital Game for New Drug Discovery. In 2021 7th International Conference of the Immersive
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• Martin, A.R. and Colton, S., 2019, August. Towards liveness in game development. In 2019 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
CONCLUSION
As per above report, it can be concluded that game
designing is the art that is used to produced specific
game which enhances participants learning with fun. In
Universities various games are conducted to reduce the
academic misconducts and plagiarism. Academic
integrity is important for University to enhance
reputation. There are skills such as communication,
presentation and effective research are required to
conduct game in proper manner.