The Development of a Multiplayer Game for Education of Hospital Management

近年来，严肃的游戏理念似乎很适合医疗管理教育的需求，一个实现医院各种参数的游戏环境可以为体验管理和学习所需技能提供机智的环境。此外，最近游戏产业和信息技术的发展催生了网络游戏，通过玩家之间的实时交流，提供了更有趣、更令人上瘾的体验。事实上，社交网络在网络游戏领域的兴起是一个值得注意的市场现象。鼓励玩家之间互动的网络严肃游戏可以吸引用户更长的时间，并且可以让用户体验到不同的情境。因此，游戏的引入必须带来更好的教育效果。本研究设计并制作了一个网络医院管理游戏原型，并对原型进行了评估。玩家作为每个医院的院长，根据各种临床指标做出管理决策，这些决策影响到其他医院以及他/她自己医院的状况。这种互动让玩家相互竞争，同时也让他们相互交流自己的发现。

Recently, the serious game concept seems fitting well for the demand of the medical management education, a game environment implementing various parameters of hospitals may provide tactful environment to experience management and to horn the required skills. Additionally, recent advancement of the game industry and the information technologies arouse networked games, which provide more entertaining and more addicting experience via real time communication between players. As a fact, the emerging social network over networked game is remarkable phenomena for the market. Thenetworked serious game encouraging interaction between the players may attract users for longer period, and to users to experience various situations. Consequently, the introduction of the game must result in better educational outcomes. This research designed and prototyped an networked hospital management game, and evaluated the prototype. A player, the president of each hospital, makes management decisions under various clinical indicators, and the decision affects condition of the other hospitals as well as of his/her own. The interaction makes the players compete, and, at the same time, exchange their findings each other.