“Choose your adventure” style gameplay, where players are presented with opportunities to decide where the story goes next. Different decisions will lead to different outcomes, including bad endings to the story, or even parallel storylines.
Total play time is between 10 to 15 minutes per scenario.
Gameplay experience
Start playing through story, section by section.
Select between 2 or three potential answer choices when reaching a decision point in the story.
Pause and learn important facts about a specific topic with learning topics carefully placed throughout the story.
Results experience
View rough score after each play session: good, neutral, poor.
Select to view breakdown of score (hidden by default).
Select to replay case (if the user wishes to reattempt it).
View learning topics associated with scenario.
View related case studies, and play any of them if necessary.
Cover in depth
Short, playable case studies
Tell a story
Make key decisions
Learn and improve
Tell a story
Make key decisions
Learn and improve
Gameplay details
Highly focused, short, and snappy gameplay.
Total play time is between 5 to 10 minutes per case study.
Gameplay experience
View details of the case.
Select between 4 tests to learn further information; some appropriate and some not.
Select between 4 interventions (actions) to apply; some appropriate and some not.
Results experience
View rough score after each play session: good, neutral, poor.
Select to view breakdown of score (hidden by default).
Select to replay case (if the user wishes to reattempt it).
View explanation of case study.
View related case studies, and play any of them if necessary.
Cover in breadth and depth
Succinct reference articles
Facts
Explanations
Facts
Explanations
Information display details
Each reference article pertains to a specific topic.
Information is presented as fact-explanation pairs; i.e., a succinct fact is paired with a detailed explanation.
Groups of fact-explanation pairs are bundled together into sections, with each section corresponding to a single aspect of the topic.
Sections can be read independently of one other (ideal for skimming through information).
Total time is between 10 to 15 minutes to read through the full article.