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Additional experiences that can be enhanced with game design is the ability to develop awareness of your audience and reflecting on your creation. (Good and Robertson, 2006)

Educators took a look at the NWN2 toolset that makes commercial quality game creation possible, but found that the interface representations encourage a focus on other aspects of game creation, e.g. level design and combat related aspects of game. They took on the challenge of redesigning the interface to change representations that encourage a focus on commercial aspects of game creation, such as level design and combat related elements.

Four teachers pooled their input and postulated that there was clear potential for game creation to support development of writing skills, particularly in terms of: Motivation, Relevance to culture, Different level of feedback (peers care), and Ownership and responsibility.

Compositional skills, audience awareness and reflection are important contributions of game creation that involves strategic thinking, dialog, and other language practice such as timing, visual symbols, and imagination.

Game elements that encourage language develpment include introductory screens, descriptions, dialog, , diaries, character creation, scenes, and descriptive objects. "By writing about it they have to think about it!"

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