Information Systems Development: Mobile Device Development of Edugame - Lab Report Example

The game will be hosted by a software application that can be accessed by the user upon supplying the relevant username and password. With this in place, the user is now shown an option to select a topic of choice as well as a preferred difficulty level. The selection of these two criteria helps the software code to generate the appropriate set of questions, which is then presented to the user to answer. The user then selects an option out of 4 choices shown against a question and repeats this process for every question.

At the end of the test, the application evaluates the player’s responses against the correct answers and calculates the score, which is then presented to the user. The user is then free to compare the obtained score against the score of other competitors to gain an understanding of their standing among others. As such, scores can be compared against others over a time range or against a ranking of the highest scores obtained among all players so far. Upon the development of the game, the software application was tested extensively for two primary purposes. The first was to ensure that each function that was planned had been provided for in an error-free manner. The second phase of testing was aimed at optimizing the performance of the application to allow it to run speedily and efficiently within the constrained environment of a mobile device. The logical flow of the game underwent several modifications to provide a sense of constancy within the whole range of the application. The language used in content within the application has been kept very simple to allow the game to be played by all age groups. The game has also been provided with an administration module that will be operated by an external administrator. Any changes to the software and the content will be updated and synchronized with the content within the mobile device of the player regularly through a network-based transfer. There is also a feature to upgrade the software automatically in the event of the development of any additional patches to the software.