e-Bug Senior Game

Senior Game

• Game Style• Game Process• Demo • Game Puzzles and Learning Outcomes• Feedback to date and evaluation plans

Game Style

• Game is a detective game where the player investigates microbial problems.

• Player is presented with many ideas or theories which are confirmed or contradicted by evidence.

• Story and puzzle based game• Has “microbe vision” which allows player to see

bugs• Can perform 3 mini-game tests which can be

used to identify microbes

Game Process

• Player is given missions by “Big C” who is the boss.

• The player and Alyx (scientist) fly to locations

• They interview people and look for physical clues

• By finding clues, the story moves on.• At the end of the mission, the player is

asked a series of questions by Big C that can be used to confirm knowledge gain

Game Back Story

• A call has come in to e-Bug HQ.• A famous actor has fallen very ill and his

security people suspect a deliberate act of poison

• Big C dispatches the player and Alyx to investigate.

Characters: Big C

• Big C (boss of e-Bug)

Characters: Alyx

• Alyx (scientist coworker) 

Character: Heracles Samson

• Heracles (bodyguard to actors)

Characters: Hugh Gaego

• Hugh Gaego (actor)

Jamie Grimesworth

• Jamie Grimesworth (chef) 

Example Mockup

 • Showing Learning Outcomes:

• Microbes are found everywhere even though you can’t see them

• There are three types of microbe (B, V and F)• Sometimes bad microbes can make us sick• Don’t spread your bad microbes to others• Also covers some food hygiene outcomes not in

the pack:• Microbes can be found on our food and can

transfer to humans• Cooking food properly can kill harmful microbes

Mission 1

• Mission 1 was basis of the demo. • Set around a barbeque and covers:

• Hygiene• Spread of infection• Introduction to microbes

Mechanics

• Hand, Respiratory and Food Hygieneo Infection can be spread through unclean handso Hand washing can prevent the spread of infectiono Infection can be spread through sneezing and coughingo Sneezing or coughing in your hand can still spread

infectiono Microbes can be found on our food and can transfer to

humanso Cooking food properly can kill harmful microbes

Mission 2

Mission 2

• Mission 2 introduces a ‘superbug’• Aim is for the player to identify that in places where

there is high antibiotic misuse, resistant bugs are present

• Story starts off in an airport where one person (Allison) was on a flight with someone sick with the bug.

• The player visits a site of good practice and a site of bad practice and finds clues that show why the ‘bad’ practice is bad

• Later, the player performs a ‘mini game’ that shows that the superbug is different because it isn’t killed by the normal antibiotics

Mission 2: Characters

• Allison (sporty girl)• Emerges later on that she’s infected with the superbug

Mission 2: Characters

Dr Pia Diallo ( French Doctor)•Town suffering from superbug•Evidence in her office of inappropriate antibiotic use

Mission 2 Characters

• Dr Emmet Brun (Danish Doctor)• Example of good behavior with antibiotics

Mission 3

• Mission 3 connects poor antibiotic use to real world behavior.

• The story involves • Sports team fallen ill• Sabotage suspected but not the case• Allison (from last mission) stopped taking

antibiotics, causing her illness to come back.

• She gave water to sports team, spreading bug

• Her coach took her antibiotics for a virus and now has bad diarrhea