This report details the developmental process of Chinmoku (“silence”), an educational game developed to fulfill the Major Qualifying Project requirement for Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Interactive Media and Game Development (IMGD) and Computer Science majors. This project was developed over a three month period at Ritsumeikan University’s Biwako-Kusatsu Campus in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. The game seeks to teach Hiragana, one of the Japanese writing systems, to a target audience of young adults familiar with gaming. This report covers all aspects of the team’s development process, research, playtesting, and the possibilities of future work on this project.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Carletto-Leon, Francesca Veronica

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-032516-115319

Advisor

• Lindeman, Robert W.
• Madan, Ryan Smith

Year

• 2016

Sponsor

• Ritsumeikan Univerity

Date created

• 2016-03-25

Location

• Kusatsu

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Interdisciplinary

Rights statement

• In Copyright