Abstract
Literature-based sciences deal with plenty of great stories. As a combination of traditional knowledge transfer methods in the humanities and newer technologies associated with the digital humanities, serious games can be a great way to motivate a younger audience to deal with such heritage assets. In this paper we present our contribution to this: A serious game interpretation of Ludwig Tiecks Der blonde Eckbert (English: Fair-Headed Eckbert.). After a summary of the story and its literary relevance we introduce our concept of the game based around audiovisual storytelling with a runner game and provide an overview about included didactic elements. We discuss our strategy on how to keep players intrinsic motivation high to achieve a longer playtime and thereby better knowledge consolidation. Finally, we present several generalized code components which arose during development. These components - such as an audiovisual cutscene and an endless runner template - provide the opportunity to develop similar serious games without requiring coding skills.
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We’ll use therefor the phrase audiovisual novel in the following.
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English: Fair-Headed Eckbert.
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The game can be accessed at https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/213265, last access 30.06.2021.
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https://godotengine.org/, last access 30.06.2021.
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The repository is accessible under https://gitlab.com/kkoerner/dh-templates.
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Where is the application used; e.g. as part of an exhibition, within an curriculum.
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Eng.: The Foolish Lady.
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You can access the game by using the Google Chrome Browser, entering “chrome://dino” in the browsers adress bar.
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These gems are an important story element.
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External testers required approx. 2 h to unlock all achievements.
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Körner, K., Turba, A.K. (2021). Der Blonde Eckbert - A Serious Game Interpretation of the Eponymous Romantic Fairy Tale. In: de Rosa, F., Marfisi Schottman, I., Baalsrud Hauge, J., Bellotti, F., Dondio, P., Romero, M. (eds) Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13134. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92182-8_7
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