This report details the developmental process of Chinmoku (“silence”), an educational game developed to fulfill the Major Qualifying Project requirement for Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Interactive Media and Game Development (IMGD) and Computer Science majors. This project was developed over a three month period at Ritsumeikan University’s Biwako-Kusatsu Campus in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. The game seeks to teach Hiragana, one of the Japanese writing systems, to a target audience of young adults familiar with gaming. This report covers all aspects of the team’s development process, research, playtesting, and the possibilities of future work on this project.

• 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

• McKenna, Robert Edward
• Wallach, Samuel Selig
• Carletto-Leon, Francesca
• DeSimone, Dillon Joseph

Contributors

• Tangent Music, LLC

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-110915-134121

Advisor

• Lindeman, Robert W.

Year

• 2015

Center

• Japan Project Center (Kyoto or Osaka) - MQP

Sponsor

• Ritsumeikan University

Date created

• 2015-11-09

Location

• Kusatsu

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Interactive Media & Game Development
• Interdisciplinary

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-09-11