教育游戏与商业游戏内在动机差异的对比研究

商业游戏之所以被人们广泛接受和喜欢,主要源于动机机制设计。把商业游戏的动机因素运用到教育游戏的设计中,是教育游戏可玩性和好玩性的保证。商业游戏在好奇、控制、幻想、挑战和人际动机这5个内在动机因素的设计上远远优于教育游戏,能给玩家带来忘我的体验。主要将商业游戏和教育游戏在动机的5个方面进行对比分析,得出二者之间的差距,提出几条教育游戏在游戏动机机制的设计上可以借鉴商业游戏的意见。

Research on Differences between Intrinsic Motivation Mechanism of Internal Educational Games and of Commercial Games

With regard to the degree of being favored,the gap between internal educational games and commercial games originally results from the design of the motivation mechanism.Commercial games are superior to internal educational games on the realization of such five intrinsic motivational factors as curiosity,control,fantasy,challenge and interpersonal motivation which can provide players with more incline to players’ psychological need.Through the contrast between internal educational games and commercial games according to the five factors and the analysis of their specific realization cases,this paper has accessed to their gap and the reasons of players’ failure to favor the educational games,and furthermore,put forward some advice on the design of the motivation mechanism that internal educational games can borrow from commercial games based on the characteristics of educational games.