Study Of The Historical Themes The Design Of Educational Games

With the rapid development of modern technology, E-Games, especially computer games have grown up in recent thirty to forty years. They have drawn teenagers' attraction greatly. There is no doubt that in the network era games bring teenagers lot of happiness. In spite of its inverse influence, teenagers can get maximum success and satisfaction in their mentality in the fictitious world. So we can't deny its great value in education.The aim that we discuss the game is not the game itself but the learner's final development. If we can put the crazy character of games into education, combine games with education, and design education games which fit the development of learners' body and mind. It can not only avoid the inverse influence of the computer games, but also use the educational functions that promote the learners' all-sided developmentThe education games based on the computer create the scenes by multi-media technology and artificial intelligence. it can create the vivid environment of playing games. The players will feel as if they were in the games and they will become interested in them. In the education games, we can also create a typical environment which common games can't create to help the learner gain the real experience.The author chooses Zheng He Went down the Occident as the study case. Firstly,from the four views------game character, game strategy, game platform and gameplayers (the main learning body), the author studied the case, the game can make the players experience the history from his own perspective and transfer the sentiment of the history from the each other's communication. Secondly, the author designs the scenario, toll-gate, system of the education games. The author fully considered the knowledge and education which the games can provide in the process of the game design. Nowadays education games have a great development. The author hopes this paper can provide the game designers some ideas in designing education games.