I-Corps: A team for development of the education game small business, Substrate Games

I-Corps：开发教育游戏小型企业 Substrate Games 的团队

• 批准号: 1561241
• 负责人: Eve Wurtele
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-10-15 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1561241&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; team; development; education; game

Educational games are a potentially transformative technology; they transport users to an immersive world and confront them with challenges in an environment that encourages discovery and risk taking. The intrinsic appeal and intuitive nature of computer games to the millennials and the as-yet-unnamed post-millennial generation makes them a powerful medium for learning, and they are beginning to take their place in classrooms as a complement to teacher-based lectures. The engagement of more young people in science is critical for our nation. This project will enable the formation of a small business targeted at serving this need. By vetting the proposed educational computer game concept, this I-Corps team will set the stage to bring science learning through gaming to a multitude of other young people; students who might otherwise be uninterested in science could become hooked and be provided a context for learning by playing computer games.The proposed Innovation Corps Teams Program (I-Corps Teams) research will seek to identify and develop a plan to improve the usability of the proposed product on marketing, business, design and presentation levels. Presently, computer games that are in realistic 3D biological (virtual) environments are unavailable in the market. Yet, this type of realism is exceedingly popular in commercial computer games. In the longer term, the proposed innovation would result in computer and mobile games, built by a team of gamers, programmers, artists, scientists and business experts, that are different from existing types, in that they enable 3-dimensional gameplay in a scientifically vetted environment. With a technologically innovative, high-quality product and a vetted commercialization plan the team will pursue additional resources to assist in further identifying and affirming the initial target market. The team intends to use the I-CORPS funding to catalyze the first steps in the development of Substrate Games into a viable educational gaming company. The team's mission is to meet the demand of STEM education via innovative interactive applications that have proven scientific merit, are fun and engaging experiences, and present themselves with high art and production values that rarely seen among educational gaming products.

教育游戏是一项潜在的变革技术。他们将用户运送到一个身临其境的世界，并在鼓励发现和冒险冒险的环境中面对挑战。计算机游戏对千禧一代和尚未命名的千禧一代的内在吸引力和直观性，使它们成为学习的强大媒介，他们开始在教室中取代基于教师的讲座的补充。更多的年轻人参与科学对于我们的国家至关重要。该项目将使一个针对这一需求的小型企业的形成。通过审查拟议的教育计算机游戏概念，这个I-Corps团队将奠定舞台，将科学学习通过游戏带给许多其他年轻人。否则可能对科学不感兴趣的学生可能会迷上并通过玩计算机游戏提供学习背景。拟议的创新团队计划（I-CORPS团队）将寻求识别和制定一项计划，以提高拟议产品在营销，业务，设计和演示水平上的可用性。目前，在市场上无法实现3D生物（虚拟）环境中的电脑游戏。但是，这种现实主义在商业计算机游戏中非常受欢迎。从长远来看，拟议的创新将导致由游戏玩家，程序员，艺术家，科学家和商业专家团队建立的计算机和手机游戏，它们与现有类型不同，因为它们在科学审查的环境中启用了三维游戏玩法。通过技术创新，高质量的产品以及审查的商业化计划，团队将追求更多的资源，以帮助进一步识别和确认最初的目标市场。该团队打算使用I-Corps资金将基材游戏开发成可行的教育游戏公司的第一步。该团队的使命是通过证明科学价值，有趣且引人入胜的经验，以创新的互动应用程序来满足STEM教育的需求，并拥有高级艺术和生产价值，这些价值在教育游戏产品中很少见。