Design of Penalties against Useless Plays in Educational Games

Abstract

In this paper, we present a design of penalties against the action in contravention of the rule to discourage the tendency of unthinking and useless plays, observed while playing the automatically-generated educational games by our design method. Monitoring player’s activity and penalizing illegal moves are potential ways of preventing unconsidered activities. Because of the illegal moves and adequate penalties are strongly linked in each educational game, it is necessary to design the penalties individually for each educational game, therefore, we investigated the automatic design of penalties for educational games, generated by the EPIC method. We also introduce a function to automatically implement the penalties, and report the experimental evaluations of educational games with penalties.