Seeker: A Serious Game for Improving Cognitive Abilities

Toma, I., Dascalu, M., & Trausan-Matu, S. (2015). Seeker: A Serious Game for Improving cognitive Abilities. In 14th IEEE Int. Conf. RoEduNet (pp. 73–79). Craiova, Romania: IEEE.

Seeker is a serious game developed using the Unity game engine that focuses on a learning outcome: improving users' cognitive abilities. The user is confronted with a series of puzzles, has complete liberty in terms of traveling between game scenes and must adequately manage the available resources in order to solve the game. Cognitive abilities are challenged for resource management and decision making, while pleasure and fun are provided while solving different puzzles. Preliminary results of our validation show that users enjoyed playing the game, but the lack of scene ordering and the limited number of provided hints are facts that should be improved in the future version.

This study is part of the RAGE project. The RAGE project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 644187. This publication reflects only the author's view. The European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.