Research Into Design Strategy Of Educational Games Visual Interface

The visual interface of a game is an important content to decide whether the game is good. For educational games, the first impression left on learners is set up by the visual interface of the game. Wally visual interface can easily attracts the attention of learners and creates a good virtual learning environment for learners.From the 80s of last century to today, educational games has made a rapid development. However, as the field of educational games is still in the early stages of development, there are still many imperfections. View from the literature research, many areas connected to educational games rarely involved, especially researches on design and development of theoretical methods are almost a blank in China. This situation affects the design and development of the educational games products..R & D staff are lack of design and development of theoretical guidance, which leads to the phenomenon that educational games designed for the learners are not favored. From the result of market research, educational games about the visual interface design has many problems, compared with colorful, beautifully produced, easily operated network video games. For improving the quality of educational games, visual interface design, as an important element, requires a practical system design method to guide its design process.Papers with educational games designed to study the visual interface, based on the analysis of the current situation of educational game design visual interface, hold user Interface design theory including the theory of interface design, game design theory and method, visual theory, cognitive theory and semiotics as the theoretical framework, according to its own properties and internal requirements, in the light of computer software interface design strategies, methods and process, proposed a learner-centered visual interface design process and the principles of related design strategy. Finally, based on the proposed method and process, this paper carried out a confirmatory design of a RPG type of educational games for visual interface, using concrete example to further explain the proposed specific application method of the design process.Learner-centered educational game design visual interface is a systematic design process, which requires considering both learners and games based learning environment. Learners is the main body of game learning. all aspects of visual interface design need to service for learners, So a deep understanding of learners is a necessary to design visual interface that meet the needs of learners. Therefore, model of learner characteristics is composed by physiological characteristics, psychological characteristics and environmental characteristics. Building learner characteristics model is a basic step of visual interface design, it provides direction and the basis for the design.