This report details and explains the creation process of the Interactive Media and Game Development, Computer Science, and Professional Writing Major Qualifying Project titled The EcoKids and the Paper Pests, shortened in this report to Paper Pests. Paper Pests is an educational game about invasive species for a middle school audience, designed to teach concepts from a New Zealand invasive species scenario. This report goes into details on the game’s background research, all areas of development, playtesting results and iterations, public appearances, potential avenues of future funding and development, and team role postmortems.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Roughan, Patrick A.
• Polekoff, Evan Andrew
• Kodzis, Samson Robert
• Vincent, Kiara Nicole

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-043015-130906

Advisor

• deWinter, Jennifer
• Snyder, Britton R.
• Lindeman, Robert W.

Year

• 2015

Date created

• 2015-04-30

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science
• Interactive Media & Game Development

Rights statement

• In Copyright