Development of Serious VR Game for Chinese Daily Expression Learning: Taking the Game 'Classroom Simulation' as an Example

Abstract

Although there are many Chinese Learning Serious Games and related academic research that have been existed, most of them are carried out on the smart phone platform. There are not many academic research and game development based on VR technology. Some researches have showed that VR Serious Game's immersive experience can obviously improve learning effect. The game 'Classroom Simulation‘ is a VR Serious Game for learning Chinese daily expression in a simulation classroom built in virtual reality space. The game is aimed at Chinese beginners and foreigners who want to travel to China so that they can understand and speak some Chinese daily expression for the purpose. For this single educational purpose, this study conducted a targeted game system design. This study specifically built simulation classrooms and teachers, then designed 3 levels of game play. At the same time, in order to verify the educational effect, efficiency and entertainment of the game, the researchers selected 12 testers for experiment and analyzed the data. The educational effect and efficiency of the game were verified by experiment, but the game is not enough in terms of entertainment such as game scenario and game play. Experiment and analyzed the data also presented improvement directions accordingly. Researchers hope this study can provide reference for future research.