Game development for education

Abstract

Though digital games provide a new and exciting medium for education, their high development cost and logistical overhead combined with change-resistant institutional cultures have stymied widespread, effective, and sustained adoption. This study explores non-digital games as a viable low-cost and effective alternative. Such games have a long history of effective use and an even longer history of research describing the role of play-based learning theory but are relatively unexplored, particularly in Singapore.