Game Design Project: Promoting Academic Integrity Through Game Design

This project outlines the design of a game aimed at promoting academic integrity among university students. The game addresses issues such as plagiarism and cheating, emphasizing the importance of ethical conduct in academic and professional life. It details the rules and regulations of the game, highlighting how it helps students understand the consequences of academic misconduct and encourages responsible behavior. The reflection section discusses the technical, ethical, and communication skills used in the game's development, emphasizing the role of time management and leadership. The project concludes that fostering academic integrity is crucial for developing responsible and trustworthy graduates, and the game serves as a tool to achieve this goal.

Game Design
INTRODUCTION
Academic misconduct is described as when students take actions which are unethical
such as cheating, plagiarism and others. These actions could impact their personal and
professional lives as students will not be able to learn or improve their skills.
Plagiarism is defined as when one student utilize the property of other without their
consent. Academic conduct reduces the ability of students to perform well in their
personal and professional lives. Academic integrity is defined as the process of making
students learn about ethical behaviour where they do not conduct academic
misconduct. The following report contains introduction of a game to stop plagiarism
along with importance of academic integrity in universities.


Instructions for playing the game
There are specific rule and regulations which students
have to follow while playing this game:
• Every student will have to play with the provided set assigned by their
educator.
• Each student will be given a time limit of 10 minutes to solve the puzzle.
• Educators will provide each student a unique ID which they have to enter
after seating on their computer system.
• After finishing the puzzle correctly student have to leave the premise.
An explanation of why academic integrity at
University is so important
Academic integrity is very essential at
universities to execute as it assist them in making their
students trustworthy and a responsible citizen. Students
graduating from universities which have followed academic
integrity ethics will get better opportunities in their career as
people will trust them more. It also provide them to evaluate
their strengths and weaknesses which they could improve for
their personal as well as professional growth. This will also
assist them in making themselves productive and efficient.
Academic integrity increases the self-confidence and self-
esteem in an individual which helps them in perform better in
their future. It also helps in reducing stress and anxiety in
people as cheating or plagiarism rise a fear of getting caught
in them. Following ethical ways of passing an examination or
completing a project makes people productive and leads to
happy life.
A summary of your reflection on the skills used to produce the game
While designing this game I have used my technical skills to
develop the structure of this game. This skill of mine has helped me in understanding
the requirements to design this project. My ethical skills have helped me in creating
this game with utmost sincerity and dedication. I have also utilized my knowledge
skills about different subjects which have assist me in creating questionnaires and
puzzle of this game. My effective communication skills have helped me in gaining
information from various resources about how to design a game. This skill of mine
has aids me in understanding the needs of people and what modifications I could
bring to this game. My time management skills have provided me an opportunity to
complete the designing of this game on specific time period. My effective and
supportive leadership style has helped me in leading my team and encouraging them
to complete this game by putting their all efforts.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion it has been observed that academic
integrity is very important in universities in order to make their
students responsible. By conducting academic misconduct
people lack ability to perform well in their academics and it also
impacts on their professional career in future. It has also been
concluded that by avoiding academic misconduct students could
develop new skills as well as improve their existing abilities.
The above initiated game will help universities in stopping
plagiarism and academic misconduct among students.


REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Alajami, A., 2020. Revision of Some Academic Integrity
Facets in Higher and Culture Research: Critical
Ethical Review. Available at SSRN 3674877.
Pratt, L., 2021. Teaching academic integrity through legal
problem solving.