Learning to pray, islamic children´s game

In this paper we will present “Prayer World” a serious game that teaches how to do ablution and prayer correctly, in an interactive environment with an animated figure shows the positions of prayer, while a speech bubble shows the Arabic words of some verses from the Holy Qur´an read during the prayer with their English translation. The proposed game is dedicated for the Muslim children and the new converts to Islam, it was designed by the use of a novel design approach based on a combination of different design methodologies used by the video game producers and rapid prototyping model which used in instructional design; the new methodology will allow for the non-experts in the field e.g. “instructors and trainers” to design and develop their own serious games. An evaluation of how our design methodology proved successful in the development of “Prayer World” along with an outlook on future research concludes this paper.