Earth Girl Saves the Day: A Computer Game Prototype about Earth Hazards

Author

Kerlow, Isaac

Author_Institution

Earth Obs. of Singapore, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2011

fDate

20-22 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

38

Abstract

Earth Girl is the story of an Asian girl who can save her family and friends from natural hazards. The story is being developed as a computer game and an animated short. This paper presents the design philosophy and progress report on the single level game prototype, one that is meant to help players gain a better understanding of natural hazards through imaginative and fun game play. Earth Girl the computer game seeks to raise the regional awareness of Earth hazards while providing simple but engaging game play that is as fun as it is culturally sensitive and based on scientific fact.

Keywords

computer animation; computer games; disasters; environmental science computing; health hazards; regional planning; Asian girl; Earth Girl; Earth hazard regional awareness; animation; computer game prototype; fun gameplay; imaginative gameplay; natural hazards; single level game prototype; Animation; Earth; Games; Hazards; Prototypes; Tsunami; Visualization; Asian cultural traditions; Earth hazards; Southeast Asia; Western Pacific; animation; computer game; game prototype; gameplay; serious games;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Culture and Computing (Culture Computing), 2011 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1593-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.15

Filename

6103206