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It΄s well known that video games can be used for educational purpose. However, making a video game ΄educational΄ is not a trivial task. A lot of guidelines have been presented for designing effective educational games. This paper constructs a software architecture common to all educational games (EGA) which realize those design guidelines in a unified and formalized way. In this paper, it is shown that EGA can be (re)used as a design blueprint to improve productivity and quality of educational games. Furthermore, this paper illustrates how the EGA can be adapted into an externalized version to meet the requirements of any special genre of educational game. Finally, an example is introduced to show how the externalized version of EGA is used to develop a real educational game. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adventure games for educational purpose, which is termed of eduventure, show many advantages. In this paper, a group of core concepts which is essential to eduventure game design is found. In order to prevent eduventure game designer from continually rediscovering of these core elements, we clarify the functionalities of these core concepts and form them into a collaborated conceptual framework. We also show how the Conceptual Eduventure Framework can be reused in eduventure game design and how it can serve as a tool which can adjust the balance between instruction and entertainment. Furthermore, we implement the Conceptual Eduventure Framework in TorqueScript so that it becomes a library of building blocks which can be reused in eduventure game development based on Torque Game Engine. As evaluation and application, an eduventure game project is built based on the TorqueScript Eduventure Framework which can be applied in freshman training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]