CS 492: Senior Project

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CS 492 Senior Project

• CTPP
• Center For Technology and Public Policy
• Game Player Tracker
• (Video)
• Presented by Josh Pierce

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A Teaching Game??

• The game will teach how to prepare for and
  mitigate various disasters, starting with an
  earthquake
• Fully immersed 3D world where earthquakes happen
  frequently
• First Person Perspective
• Goal Survive

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Stakeholders

• CTPP
• Illinois Terrorism Task Force
• Illinois Emergency Management Agency
• Illinois State Police
• Illinois Fire Service Institute
• American Red Cross

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Users

• Middle School and up
• Teachers
• Server Administrators

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Unity3D

• A very versatile game engine
• PC
• Mac
• Browsers

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Why Us?

• Track Events
• Analyzing Player Actions
• Are students learning?

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Four Parts

• Translator
• Database
• Result Analysis
• Save/Load

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Translator

• Listen for and catch JavaScript messages from the
  game
• Translate message to internal class structure
• Store events in database
• Communication with Results and Save/Load Modules

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Translator Flow
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Database

• Active Game State Table
• Event List Table
• Save Game Table
• Saved Game State Table
• Completed Game Table
• User Table

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Result Analysis

• Called by Translator after game is finished
• Receives session info from Database
• Analyzes results with presets
• Sends results to Database
• Sends message to game

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Saving and Loading

• Called by Translator
• Swapping data in the Database
• Save
• Move current game state to a save state
• Load
• Move save state to current game state
• Send message to game

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Extended Usage

• Used in the other disaster games
• Modular
• Good Coding Practices
• Plenty of documentation

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Questions?