Game Design: Understanding Plagiarism and Academic Integrity

This report explores the ethical and legal implications of plagiarism and academic misconduct in game design. It emphasizes the importance of academic integrity, highlighting how it enhances the credibility of student work and fosters genuine learning. The report introduces a game designed to educate players about plagiarism and academic misconduct, providing instructions and reflecting on the skills used in its creation. It concludes that plagiarism has severe consequences, while academic integrity promotes value and motivation in student work, ensuring proper citation and knowledge acquisition. The report also touches upon the importance of skills in game development.

Game design.

TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main body........................................................................................................................................3
Plagiarism and academic misconduct.......................................................................................3
Instructions for playing the game.............................................................................................3
Importance of academic integrity.............................................................................................3
Reflection of skills used............................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................4

Introduction
Plagiarism and academic misconduct is an offence both ethically and legally. It refers to using
someone eles’s hard work as their own without providing proper credits to the original author or
owner of the work. There are several punishments for plagiarism and it depends up on the
universities to choose the punishment for their guilty students. Academic integrity helps the
students in enhancing the credibility of their work and will also make sure that the students are
gaining knowledge about the research and related topics (Sasupilli, Bokil and Punekar., 2019). It
is a lifetime opportunity for students to learn and using plagiarism will take this opportunity from
them and they may also have to face severe consequences of that. In this report, a game is
provided in order to give knowledge and information about plagiarism and academic
misconduct. Along with this the report will also help in understanding the importance of
academic integrity and a self reflection about the skills that is used in order to produce the game.
Main body
Plagiarism and academic misconduct
Academic misconduct refers to the practice or action of student which is against the rules
and regulations of the institution. Every institution have their own separate code of conducts
which indicates the rules and regulations and norms which the students have to follow in order to
avoid an punishment or penalty (Dillon., 2018). It is important for the students as well as staff of
the university to follow all the rules and regulations also it is important for the universities to
provide proper knowledge to students as well as staff about the norms of the institution.
Academic misconduct includes bribery, cheating, fabrication or impersonation, etc. Plagiarism is
also a form of misconduct which must be avoided by students at any cost.
Instructions for playing the game
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Importance of academic integrity
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Reflection of skills used
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Conclusion
From the above report it is concluded that, the student have to face severe consequences
for plagiarism as well as academic misconduct. It is not good for the career aspects of the
students as it implies dishonesty and can ruin the reputation and credibility of the students.
Academic integrity help the students in providing value to the work that they are doing and will
make sure that the students are motivated towards their work. It will make sure that proper
credits and citations are provide to the work and will also help the students in gaining knowledge
about details of research and respective topics. Th importance of skill that helps in developing a
game is also provided in the given report.

References
Books and journals
Sasupilli, Bokil and Punekar., 2019. Game Design Frameworks and Evaluating Techniques for
Educational Games: A Review. Research into Design for a Connected World, pp.277-286.
Dillon., 2018. Game design and emotions: analysis models. Springer.