Delivery
Module 1 - Creating a Computer Game Survey, Database and Mail Merge Document
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Module 1 started with the students brainstorming the key components of video games in order to create survey questions. The students created a list of features including: genre, such as maze, platform or shooting games; control method, either mouse or keyboard; number of players; time limits; sounds; and graphics.
Once a list was compiled of these features the girls adapted them into survey questions to determine the gaming preference of their Year 11 peers.
The girls were then required to design and create their surveys in a word processing application such as Microsoft Word. The students had to think about formatting choices throughout this process to make the information was as clear as possible for the stakeholders and for themselves when collecting the data.
The girls handed out the printed surveys to a large group of Year 11 students, who filled in their preferences. The survey data was then compiled into a database in Microsoft Access.
The girls analysed this data, refining their stakeholders down to a few key stakeholders for the remainder of the project. They then developed several game ideas that catered to the final stakeholders’ preferences.
This data was then exported from their Access database to create a mail merge (Glossary) document sent to the final stakeholder’s email addresses that included the top three game concepts and asked for further feedback and preferences.
This module served the whole project in that it identified user preference and refined the girls’ brief while addressing specific skills standards such as the transferring and integration of data across multiple applications.
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