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Part 4: Special Needs In Chap. 12, “Nursing Home Residents versus Researcher: Establishing Their Needs while Finding Your Way,” Jon Ram Bruun-Pedersen describes problems encountered when designing exercise technology that uses virtual reality for nursing home residents. The author spent several years investigating, interviewing, and following the daily activities of residents in a local nursing home. The first part of this paper motivates the need for such technology. The author takes a detailed look at the elderly’s reluctance to engage in physical exercise and offers a solution design that motivates this target group to engage in physical activities.
Unlike most of the frameworks revealed by our literature survey, eAdventure is limited to building one specific type of game, 2D point-and-click adventures. Most step-by step procedures can be easily adapted to a point-and-click style interface. 2 An Overview of Serious Game Engines and Frameworks 29 By limiting development to one type of interaction, the framework is far less complicated than a general purpose game development tool. Games can be developed using the eAdventure language or created with a graphic-based editor which does not require a technical background or any programming skill [57].
Some of the more notable Flash games include Machinarium, a version of Angry Birds, and FarmVille. At its peak, FarmVille alone attracted more than 80 million active monthly players [9]. Flash now supports High Definition (HD) video playback, full screen viewing, and 3D GPU accelerated rendering [2]. Support is primarily provided by other community members through the online forums. Expert support packages are available for purchase from Adobe. There are also several books specific to Flash development currently available including “Flash Game Development by Example [19].