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People nowadays have acquaintance with living on social network sites hence it is worth of providing them a learning environment where is embedded in SNS that they can do what they have been already familiar with. In addition, Reading comics or webcomics will give learners enjoyable and positive experiences. The researchers create the four-frame Webcomic-based game on Facebook for learner who has eager to learn about and interest in Chinese Festivals by gaming. This paper adopts and refers to the game design guidelines which are addressed by previous research in order to create a game which learners feel comfortable with. The game rules and designs are addressed in this paper on the basis on literature reviews. Eventually, after determining the construction of game content, the social interactive design combining with Facebook should be more concerned about.
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Hong, WC., Young, S.SC. (2011). Playing Webcomic-Based Game on Facebook for Learning Chinese Festivals. In: Chang, M., Hwang, WY., Chen, MP., Müller, W. (eds) Edutainment Technologies. Educational Games and Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Applications. Edutainment 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6872. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23456-9_33
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