BMP3003 Further Academic Skills: Game Design, Integrity, Skills

This assignment provides instructions for playing a game designed to promote academic integrity and enhance relevant skills. It highlights the importance of academic integrity in university, emphasizing its role in shaping academic growth and fostering responsible behavior. The assignment also details the technical and soft skills used in producing the game, including software knowledge, financial planning, teamwork, communication, and leadership. It further explains how these skills contribute to the successful design and execution of the game, ensuring privacy, budget adherence, and effective team collaboration. References to academic literature support the discussion on academic integrity and skill development.

Instructions for playing the
game
BMP3003 Further Academic
Skills
Step 1: Download the application on the desktop or mobile phones.
Step 2: Check the compatibility and the supported bits to the respective
gadgets after installation.
Step 3: Give credential to sign in
Step 4: The game application would show different options to play such as
quizzes or puzzles. The players must choose one at a time.
Step 5: For quizzes you would also be provided multiple choice questions as well
as descriptive question.
Step 6: Click on start option to initiate the game
Step 7: It also shows other options such as playing with friends wherein players
can connect with their friends to make it more fun sessions.
Step 8: Players must respond to all questions and riddles and press continue to
another stage.
Step 9: Make sure that you don’t navigate from the screens or Copy paste your
answers as in that case you would be caught for unfair means and can lose the
game.
Step 10: For puzzles you can take the help of hints given below. For quizzes, you
can click on next option for jumping to another question. At the end of the game
do not forget to click on the submit option to see the results.
Step 11: The game also includes an option of Exit anytime, which is on the top
left of the mobile and desktop screens.
Step 12: Best of luck! The winners would get vouchers and coupons to shop
some of the popular brands.
Game Design
Name

 An explanation of why academic
integrity at University is so important
It is no brainer that academic integrity is one of the crucial aspect in student’s academic life. It
supports to shape an academic career by enhancing skills and knowledge pertaining to specific
subjects and hasten academic growth. When students are caught in unfair means, it would not
only damage the mental health but also negatively affect their learnings and understandings.
Thus, academic integrity helps to shape an individual in a way that builds both academic and
social well-being and values. Academic integrity is important where students feels responsible for
using fair means and adhering to the norms and values of the University. Academic integrity
helps to bestow quality learnings and understanding. These also plays an important role in future
career as quality learnings and understandings helps fill with suffice knowledge and skills
required and accomplish employability which is crucial to shape career objectives of an individual
(Manly, Leonard and Riemenschneider, 2015).

 Skills used to produce the game
In order to design the game and make it a success, there are different set of skills and knowledge that helped me to accomplish the
objectives of the game design targets. These including both soft and technical skills. Wherein soft skills including team work,
communication and technical skills including practical and theoretical knowledge about the latest technologies, financial skills.
Technical Skills
Practical and theoretical knowledge about latest technologies helped me design the game embedding software in the game (McHaney,
Cronan and Douglas, 2016). Software such as CryEngine, Gamebryo and Gamemaker helped me to established a 3D game design. Apart
from, I also used KPI’s which are performance metric tools in order to evaluate the performance and effectiveness of the game design. The
game is also designed in a way in order to ensure privacy and safety from cyber-attacks. Thus, in order to ensure the utmost privacy in the
game design software such as Firewall were used to identify and prevent harmful cyber threats.
I also assured that the budget for the game design goes as per the determined financial plan. For which financial skills helped me to
conduct all the activities pertaining to purchase of the software, asking expert solution or other related activities to ensure that planned
activities go as per the determined budget.
Soft skills
I worked with my team and group of expert that helped to add group efforts for accomplishing the success of the game design. The team
working skills helped to maintain cooperation among the team members and work as group to derive better results.
Effective communication helped me to deliver the core objectives to the team members with the specified deadlines and standards.
Effective communication skills have helped me to establish cooperation and positive atmosphere for working in groups and meeting the
deadlines (Robinson and Glanzer, 2017).
Leadership skills is another important factors that has helped me throughput to delegate and deliver the group targets and objectives to
the team members. Leadership skills supported to deliver proper guidance and support to my team in order to ensure that the team meets
the expectations. I motivated my fellow team member despite of the challenges faced in the project task.
Critical decision making abilities is also one of the important skills that helped to me make important decisions pertaining to different
choices and objectives. Wherein I decided on important subjects such as the financial budget, the technicalities faced, the software
required, the execution of the group work and so on (Sefcik, Striepe and Yorke, 2019)

Referenc
es
Manly, T. S., Leonard, L. N. and Riemenschneider, C. K., 2015. Academic integrity in the information age: Virtues
of respect and responsibility. Journal of Business Ethics. 127(3). pp.579-590.
McHaney, R., Cronan, T. P. and Douglas, D. E., 2016. Academic integrity: Information systems education
perspective. Journal of Information Systems Education. 27(3). pp.153-158.
Robinson, J. A. and Glanzer, P. L., 2017. Building a culture of academic integrity: What students perceive and
need. College Student Journal. 51(2). pp.209-221.
Sefcik, L., Striepe, M. and Yorke, J., 2019. Mapping the landscape of academic integrity education programs: what
approaches are effective?. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education.
Sotiriadou, P. and et.al., 2020. The role of authentic assessment to preserve academic integrity and promote skill
development and employability. Studies in Higher Education. 45(11). pp.2132-2148.
Stoesz, B. M. and Los, R., 2019. Evaluation of a tutorial designed to promote academic integrity. Canadian
Perspectives on Academic Integrity. 2(1). pp.3-26.