HW 5: Online Game
Due Date: See
schedule
Submission: You must submit via
Blackboard
before class
begins on the due date!
Evaluation checklist (
Word or
PDF)
Everyone will do this
evaluation.
Our next evaluation is for a
Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG), the
eRepublik. One of our graduate
students who is studying game design recommended this game as an
interesting study in user interface design. From his recommendation:
"eRepublik includes politics, economics,
warfare, and social interaction, and takes about 15 minutes per day, every day. The first few days are a
little dull, but the game gets massively more interesting as your
character progress." You need to register and create a
"character," but the game is free.
In your report, tell us which parts of the game you used. Try to
evaluate from the UI perspective, and not just whether you personally
enjoy the game. It seems important that you start early and build up
your character before finishing the report.
Use the evaluation criteria and checklist provided. Make any additional
comments that you feel are necessary, and suggest any additional
criteria that you feel are needed.
Have fun! And very important:
Don't
put a game ahead of your studies!!!