| HD-248622-16 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Stone Soup Productions, Inc. | The Search for Harmony: Building a Game Development Tool for WordPress | 5/1/2016 - 5/31/2017 | $37,430.00 | Andrea | R. | Kalin | | | | Stone Soup Productions, Inc. | Washington | DC | 20036-2504 | USA | 2016 | Cultural History | Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Digital Humanities | 37430 | 0 | 37430 | 0 | The development of an educational games module for the WordPress content management system. The prototype game would be associated with an upcoming documentary film on African Americans and classical music.
The process of creating information-rich websites has become more accessible to the public through content management systems (CMSs) like WordPress. New game development tools have also become available to creators for designing engaging experiences. However, there is a need for a tool that can create educational games with the familiarity of a CMS platform already in use in the humanities, rather than require learning a new program. The proposed tool aims to pair a game development framework with WordPress to allow media makers to develop educational games using a simple interface. The Search for Harmony is a case study game concept, about multicultural influence on classical music, that will help provide content to develop and refine the tool. The end product would reduce resources needed to create educational games of a certain type, foster websites that could repurpose game content, and encourage educators and others in the humanities to create engaging experiences for students. |