Serious Game Development “Are You Serious?!” (BIP)

Übersicht

ECTS	5 or 6
Beginn	23.04.2025
Ende	11.07.2025
Termin	Online Lectures from April 23rd to May 28th 2025 Work (2 hours per week) Presential week (35 hours) June 2nd to June 6th 2025
Ort	Hochschule Bremen
Maximale Teilnehmer:innenzahl	8
Dozent:in	Prof. Andreas Teufel and Jendrik Bulk from HSB with colleagues from the European partner universities (t.b.c.)
Kontakt	Prof. Andreas Teufel: andreas.teufel@hs-bremen.de Yana Yerofeyeva (departmental International Office, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science): yana.yerofeyeva@hs-bremen.de

Inhalt

In this Blended Intensive Program (BIP) we will explore the enormous possibilities that games and gamification offer for knowledge transfer. The key word is “serious game”. A serious game is more or less the transfer of knowledge using methods and aspects that usually are applied to (digital or real world) games like role play, creating avatars, challenges, levels or rewards – and many more.

 

We will design gaming concepts, develop prototypes, test and evaluate them. Teams of max. 6 international students jump into methodologies like the human centered design process or design thinking to find new solutions or innovative approaches for unsolved challenges or open questions. These questions will be provided from our external partners from arts, design and culture. Our partners also act as experts and advisors for the teams.

 

TEAM ENGAGEMENT (facilitator, students, partner): get familiar with case

exploring the context, identify stakeholders and list all, field work preparation, meet up with external partner;

• UNDERSTAND THE PRESENT SITUATION: Individual observation; Individual

investigation, Study users and selected stakeholders, Document findings;

• IDEATE: Identify insights; Understand the stakeholders; Develop analogies; Grow common understanding; Create solutions; Present concept to external partner;

• VALIDATE: Validation by peers, Validation by experts, Review of the requirements, Debate Minimum value proposition to external partner;

• DESIGN AND ITERATE: Improve / develop solutions, Test and validate until final state;

• DEMONSTRATE: Prototyping the solution(s); Feedback gathering (experts,

mentors, users); Final Pitch Preparation; Invite external partner to final pitch.

Your solutions as a team can range from serious games in the physical world to

2D, 3D, AR or VR prototypes, depending on your skills and interests. No matter if you study humanities, social science, business management, engineering, art, design or computer sciences: We will create teams from different disciplines so that each team has a broad perspective on the challenge to be solved.

Zielgruppe

all HSB students

Students on Bachelor´s and Master´s level

 

Students need to send an application incl. motivational letter und CV, stating their study course and semester to the contact persons (see above)

Zielsetzung

Acquire skills to work productively and professionally with all

stakeholders and contribute to multidisciplinary, multicultural and

transnational team activities.

• Understand problems, recognise the value of user empathy and

develop appropriate ideas.

• Development of a comprehensive project plan that takes into account

the most important activities and milestones of the project.

• Adapt and proactively respond to challenges.

• Collaborate productively with team members on all aspects of the

challenge/project.

• Investigating a real problem/challenge for the live case scenario and

deriving insights and solutions.

• Develop innovative, creative and effective solutions to the challenge

and consider the needs of the client/stakeholder.

• Investigate and define problems by exploring the underlying and

broader issues.

• Determine where to obtain the information and tools needed to solve

the problem.

• Evaluate and prioritise how to solve the problem

Methode

Final Pitch / Presentation of results (applies to 5 ECTS)

Final Pitch / Presentation of results / Documentation (applies to 6 ECTS)

Anmeldung

VANR: 11668

Thema: Serious Game Development “Are You Serious?!” (BIP)