Chinese Cuisine cook authentic Chinese food

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Chinese Cuisine -- cook
authentic Chinese food

• Major Studio Interactive Final Project
• Fengyu Hao

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INTRODUCTION

• The project is a cooking game.
• The goal is to introduce authentic Chinese
  cooking to players.
• It provides the players an entertaining way to
  learn.
• It takes advantage of the Wii remote technique.
• Target audience is any one who is interested in
  cooking Chinese food or / and cooking games. More
  female than male.

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INSPIRATION

• My own experience after I moved to the US.
  America culture was not exactly the same as what
  I learned from books. Experience a culture is
  also different from reading a culture.
• Chinese culture is popular. There are Chinatowns
  in several cities.
• Chinese restaurants are available everywhere. But
  people can rarely eat authentic Chinese cuisine,
  even in Chinatown.
• James Paul Gee -- What Video Games Have to Teach
• Us About Learning and Literacy

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DESIGN QUESTIONS

• 1, What aspects of Chinese culture are foreigners
  interested in?
• 2, How can I build an environment for my audience
  to learn better?
• 3, How can I introduce the culture element in an
  efficient way?
• 4, How can I provide a brand new learning
  experience?

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CONCEPT

• situated cognition (I.e., thinking as tied to
  a body that has experiences in the world) human
  learning is not just a matter of what goes on
  inside peoples heads but is fully embedded in
  (situated within) a material, social, and
  cultural world.
• --What Video Games Have to Teach Us About
  Learning and Literacy.(James Paul Gee)

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INTERVIEWS

• Narrow down the topic.

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RELATED WORK

• Concept related
• Real lives 2007 (Educational Simulations)
• It is an online game.
• Players are born in a
• random location in the
• world, and grow up by
• communicate with the
• system through dialogue
• boxes. They get to know
• the place through their
• own experience.

Real lives http//www.educationalsimulations.com
/indepth.html
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RELATED WORK

• Content related
• Birthday Cake
• Assembling food
• Elements to
• decorate your own
• cake. It works
• like a drawing
• board.

Cooking games http//www.cookinggames247.com/
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RELATED WORK

• Content related
• Ice Cream
• Select ice cream part
• According to the
• Instruction.

Cooking games http//www.cookinggames247.com/
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RELATED WORK

• Content and technique related
• Cooking Mama (Nintendo)
• Using NDS pen or Wii remote to
• simulate the motion of cook.
• Players follow Mamas
• instruction to cook different
• dishes.

Cooking mama http//www.cookingmama2.com/
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RELATED WORK

• Content and technique related
• Cooking Mama (Nintendo)
• Using NDS pen or Wii remote to
• simulate the motion of cook.
• Players follow Mamas
• instruction to cook different
• dishes.

Cooking mama http//www.cookingmama2.com/
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RESEARCH

• Chinese Cuisine
• There are 8 major cooking regions in China.
• For each region, I choose one special dish.
• Chuan -- Mapo Tofu
• Xiang -- Crystal sugar lotus nut soup
• Yue -- Dongjiang Baked Chicken in Salt
• Lu -- The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea
• Min -- Best Abalone
• Zhe -- Tomato and Beef soup
• Su -- Nanking Meat Balls
• Hui -- Ham Turtle

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RESEARCH

• Chinese Cuisine

Chuan -- Mapo Tofu
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RESEARCH

• Technique
• MoteDaemon Finales Paket
• It is an application that connect a Wii remote to
  an flash file on a Mac through the bluetooth.

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THE GAME
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THE GAME

• Run the MoteDaemon application before open the
  game.

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THE GAME

• A short story leads players into the game
  environment.
• The player has dinner in a Chinese restaurant in
  Chinatown. The food is not authentic Chinese food
  but she doesnt know that. When she opens her
  fortune cookie, she is brought to China. In order
  to earn permission to go back home, she has to
  cook 8 different dishes that represents 8
  different cooking regions.

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THE GAME

• A map with 8 regions highlighted.

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THE GAME

• Select one region

Sichuan
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THE GAME

• Enter the level. A short introduction shows up.

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THE GAME
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THE GAME

• The game is simplified into a catching game.
  Players catch the droping food according to the
  instructions.

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THE GAME
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THE GAME

• After finish this lever, a result will be shown
  according to the score.

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THE GAME

• Players can review the recipe of this level, they
  also can print it out.

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THE GAME
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THE GAME

• At the end, a result will be shown according to
  scores from each level.

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USER EXPERIENCE
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CONCLUSION

• Feedback
• Interesting.
• Getting excited by the remote.
• Wii remote is not esay to use.
• The speed is too slow.
• More instruction.
• Make a mouse version for people dont have wii
  remote.

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CONCLUSION

• Further development
• Refine this game
• Add opening and ending, finish all 8 leves.
• Add sound effects and backgroundmusic.
• Figure out a way to control the remote better.
• Build mouse / keyboard version.