{"id":5172,"date":"2018-03-04T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/?p=5172"},"modified":"2019-05-29T14:23:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T18:23:43","slug":"assassins-creed-origins-reinventing-gamified-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/assassins-creed-origins-reinventing-gamified-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassin’s Creed Origins Is Reinventing Gamified Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

The term \u2018gamified learning\u2019 can mean many things. In several cases, it\u2019s just a game with some learning tacked on where a player might need to, say, answer a question to proceed to the next level. But in other cases, like KFC\u2019s VR fry cook training simulation<\/a>, it’s really innovative.<\/p>\n

The latest version of Ubisoft\u2019s Assasin\u2019s Creed — Assassin’s Creed Origins — is going even further beyond that. While most Assassin\u2019s Creed games involve plots set in a specific time and place, lean heavily on missions and combat, and focus less on the historical backdrop, the latest version is changing that up. Assassin\u2019s Creed Origins centers around the ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria. While gameplay is much like previous versions, it also features a \u2018Discovery Mode\u2019 in which players can traverse the game\u2019s huge maps with most of the video game features removed. They will be able to go on historical tours, visit historical sites, and learn from a narrator how various features of the map were created.<\/p>\n

Assassin’s Creed Origins ‘Discovery Mode’: A New Way to Engage with Ancient Egypt<\/h1>\n

This might sound gimmicky. It might remind gamers of other so-called historical games like Age of Empires, where the developers took their historical sources primarily from the children\u2019s section of libraries.<\/p>\n

But that is not the case. As you start the Discovery Tour, you receive the following message: \u201cWith content curated by Egyptologists and hundreds of images sourced from museums and libraries around the world, we hope to share with you the passion that inhabited us for the four years it took to develop\u00a0Assassin\u2019s Creed Origins.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Discovery Mode, players are free to wander about on their own, or take one of the dozens (maybe hundreds?) of guided tours. As you come to a place of interest, a narrator will inform you about the site\/artifact before which you stand and the existing source material the developers used to create it.<\/p>\n