Primary English Education In Game Design And Development

With the development of the society, improvement of people’s life quality and optimization of computer hardware and software, it’s getting much easier to own one computer or laptop and even more in a family. The usage of computers especially computer games are having larger effect on the youth day by day. Computer games, on one hand, made their life exciting and colorful. On the other hand, the games will affect the development of a youth. Every coin has two sides. So it’s the educator’s job to find an efficient way to help the youth developing successfully.Under the new curriculum reform, traditional Chinese education are being suspected. It becomes more and more clear that traditional Chinese education will burden the youth in many ways. This old way of teaching becomes more and more difficult to meet the goal of training an excellent student.This research is based on the English education of primary school students. By researching the goals of English education in primary school and its teaching modules, analyzing primary school student’s way of learning, I use Flash software platform to design the educational games named Isaac Castle. It is based on educational games theory and English teaching theory of primary schools. The plot and rules of the game is also designed accordingly. The pictures in the games are nicely created. Teaching goals will be achieved as the real time interaction is going and the student successfully killed the boss. Results of the study will be tested and shown by the Question-answer NPC (Non-Player Character). There are also many classic games combined in the game to let students play around with in order to enhance the knowledge they just learned and cultivate the sense of English. It’s a perfect way to take advantage of the game to stimulate students’interest in playing educational games. And by taking advantage of the education in education games which combines the powerful media to help us increase students’ motivation in learning English. Students will learn the knowledge and slowly become confident and interested in learning English at the same time. Isaac Castle can raise students’interest in learning English and synchronized the task of the game with goals of English Teaching in primary schools so that it can successfully helping students improve their English.The characteristics of the research are to combine many classic games in the educational game called Isaac Castle, to nicely design the UI of the game and add many real time interaction so that primary school students will be attracted by the English learning environment the game created. The game takes advantage of the character that primary school students love games, and then find the most powerful motivation to stimulate them to study. Based on the concept that it’s best to treat student as the master in learning, the game will benefit students in English learning in everyday life. In this way, it can not only make the youth to learn with their own will, but also cultivate their character of thinking creatively. Through playing the English educational games for primary school students, the youth’s daily life becomes more colorful and they can develop integratedly.