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VocVille - a casual social game for learning vocabulary

  • This paper introduces Vocville, a causal online game for learning vocabularies. I am creating this application for my master thesis of my career as a "Computervisualist" (computer visions) for the University of Koblenz - Landau. The application is an online browser game based on the idea of the really successful Facebook game FarmVille. The application is seperated in two parts; a Grails application manages a database which holds the game objects like vocabulary, a Flex/Flash application generates the actual game by using these data. The user can create his own home with everything in it. For creating things, the user has to give the correct translation of the object he wants to create several times. After every query he has to wait a certain amount of time to be queried again. When the correct answer is given sufficient times, the object is builded. After building one object the user is allowed to build others. After building enough objects in one area (i.e. a room, a street etc.) the user can activate other areas by translating all the vocabularies of the previous area. Users can also interact with other users by adding them as neighbors and then visiting their homes or sending them gifts, for which they have to fill in the correct word in a given sentence.

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Author:Michel Jensen
URN:urn:nbn:de:kola-4868
Referee:Juan Manuel Dodero Beardo
Document Type:Diploma Thesis
Language:English
Date of completion:2011/02/09
Date of publication:2011/02/09
Publishing institution:Universität Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz, Universitätsbibliothek
Granting institution:Universität Koblenz, Fachbereich 4
Contributing corporation:Universidad de Cádiz
Release Date:2011/02/09
Tag:Casual Games; Facebook Application; Social Games; Vocabulary Trainer
GND Keyword:Adobe Flex; Grails; Grails 1.2
Number of pages:75
Institutes:Fachbereich 4 / Fachbereich 4
Fachbereich 4 / Institut für Computervisualistik
Dewey Decimal Classification:0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
Licence (German):License LogoEs gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht: § 53 UrhG