The Development of a Multiplayer Game for Education of Hospital Management

最近，严肃的游戏概念似乎很好地适应了医疗管理教育的需求，一个实施医院各种参数的游戏环境可以为体验管理提供机智的环境，并磨练所需的技能。此外，最近游戏产业和信息技术的进步催生了网络游戏，它们通过玩家之间的实时交流提供了更具娱乐性和更令人上瘾的体验。事实上，新兴的社交网络基于网络游戏的现象对市场来说是值得注意的。这种网络严肃的游戏鼓励玩家之间的互动，可能会吸引更长时间的用户，并让用户体验各种情况。因此，这款游戏的引入必须带来更好的教育结果。本研究设计并制作了一款网络化医院管理游戏原型，并对原型进行了评估。参与者是每个医院的院长，根据各种临床指标做出管理决策，决策不仅影响到其他医院的状况，也影响到他/她自己的情况。这种互动使玩家在竞争的同时，相互交流他们的发现。

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.