Using the Source Engine for Serious Games

Andrew Ritchie; Patrick Lindstrom; Bryan Duggan

doi:10.21427/ntbm-mr65

Using the Source Engine for Serious Games

Andrew Ritchie, Patrick Lindstrom, Bryan Duggan

Technological University Dublin

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In this paper we describe our work in using the Source engine from the game Half Life 2 to develop a serious game -Serious Gordon. Serious Gordon is used to teach principalsof food safety and food hygiene in a restaurant kitchen environment.The target users of Serious Gordon are students of catering in the DIT Faculty of Tourism and Food. Thepaper describes the formation of the Serious Gordon teamand the development of a story for the game. It continueswith a description of the features from Half Life 2 that we retained and those that we removed for the game. We then describe the process we undertook to implement the gameincluding a description of the tools we used. We conclude with a brief evaluation of the project and present future work.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21427/ntbm-mr65
Publication status	Published - 2006
Event	9th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Educational and Serious Games - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 22 Nov 2006 → 24 Nov 2006

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Conference	9th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Educational and Serious Games
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	22/11/06 → 24/11/06

Keywords

Source engine
Half Life 2
serious game
food safety
food hygiene
restaurant kitchen
catering
DIT Faculty of Tourism and Food
game development
evaluation
future work

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