The Unlucky Hans: The Difficulties of Adapting Fairy Tales as Text-Based Games for Young Readers
There is a vast amount of children's literature in the public domain that could be adapted for the purpose of game-based learning and reading. Here I recount my attempt to design a text-based game based on the popular fairy tale Hans in luck, with the purpose to improve children's engageme...
| Published in: | Gamevironments |
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| Subtitles: | "Special Issue 'Revisiting Teaching and Games. Mapping out Ecosystems of Learning', edited by Björn Berg Marklund, Jordan Loewen-Colón and Maria Saridaki" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Gamevironments
Year: 2021, Volume: 15, Pages: 351-361 |
| Further subjects: | B
Learning
B Pedagogy B Text-Based Games B Gamevironments B Fairy Tales B Teaching |
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| Summary: | There is a vast amount of children's literature in the public domain that could be adapted for the purpose of game-based learning and reading. Here I recount my attempt to design a text-based game based on the popular fairy tale Hans in luck, with the purpose to improve children's engagement with text in primary school. Using the open-source tool Twine (2021), I made an interactive hypertext version of the story. Unfortunately, play-tests with children revealed that they found the interactive story to be little engaging and too predictable. I illustrate what design decisions may have contributed to this failure and discuss the drawbacks of converting existing literary works to an interactive format. |
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| ISSN: | 2364-382X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Gamevironments
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.48783/gameviron.v15i15.156 |