{"id":39,"date":"2015-09-11T08:42:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T08:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graphicboxlab.com\/amhashemian\/wordpress\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2025-10-29T21:16:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:16:35","slug":"teaching-experiences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hashemian.ca\/index.php\/teaching-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"2004 &#8211; 2009 : Game Design Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-260 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/hashemian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Game-Design.jpg\" alt=\"Game Design\" width=\"410\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hashemian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Game-Design.jpg 410w, https:\/\/hashemian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Game-Design-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At 2004, after finishing my master, I was interested in designing serious games within&nbsp;simulated&nbsp;environments. Therefore,&nbsp;besides teaching at universities, I established my own startup company (Virtual World Games Club) to design different types of games for a wide range of stakeholders&nbsp;(such as governmental organizations, schools, tourism centers, companies, conferences, and etc) to employ&nbsp;gamification as a media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Until 2009, we designed our game projects based on various&nbsp;gaming&nbsp;platforms (such as&nbsp;video games, LARP, ARG, MORPG, and etc) to explore immersion&nbsp;techniques and to&nbsp;improve&nbsp;the game influence. Our game projects have been described as below.&nbsp;Designing these games provided me great experience on how to evoke fun&nbsp;in&nbsp;daily activities. Besides that, due to my game design knowledge, I&nbsp;became TA for different game design courses in 2015-2017 at Simon Fraser University.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Treasure Raiders<\/span><\/em><\/strong> (2004)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Gamifying teaching myths in an educational<strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><strong><strong>Puzzle-Solving Contest<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B3ZCPNE3gkfDXzdLT19KLXUwazQ\/view?usp=sharing&amp;resourcekey=0-EYT8kUvM8m94fAF0V8DftA\">Description<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Legends Land<\/span>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>(2005)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A highly immersive text-based<strong> Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MORPG)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B3ZCPNE3gkfDREJsQVJEaXZvSVU\/view?usp=sharing&amp;resourcekey=0-PMtbMUdc0nsP4Da3kMoiiQ\">Description<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Police Skills <\/span><\/em><\/strong>(2005)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">An Educational Simulation<strong><strong> Live Action Role Playing (LARP) Game<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong>to train police forces through crime situations<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B3ZCPNE3gkfDZGVTNk91dWowaDA\/view?usp=sharing&amp;resourcekey=0-EZQFcJlc7-ty6UmQut7QZw\">Description<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Paradise Defenders<\/span>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>(2006)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A strategic <strong>Video Game<\/strong> engine developed by our team using DEV&nbsp;C++ compiler<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paradise Defenders\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ni5c-yPbE10?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B3ZCPNE3gkfDNGpIOFlsRzFneDg\/view?usp=sharing&amp;resourcekey=0-XYT5dW95SyI7qJWUzl8WCw\">Description<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Secret of &nbsp;Shadows<\/span><\/em><\/strong> (2006)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Gamifying teaching history in schools as an educational<br \/>\n<strong><strong>Live Action Role Playing (LARP) Game<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B3ZCPNE3gkfDZldQUHFIQ0lzcTA\/view?usp=sharing&amp;resourcekey=0-K6WUCTq8b78-Zy5078EtZw\">Description<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Seven Wizards<\/span>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>(2007)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Gamifying tourism as a <strong>Puzzle-Solving Contest<\/strong> with behavior-change aspects<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B3ZCPNE3gkfDUXdmdWRFdUdEM0E\/view?usp=sharing&amp;resourcekey=0-lJYerN8Y4YKx0ZtxhA0pUQ\">Description<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Festival of &nbsp;Funny Soprts<\/span>&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>(2007)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A <strong>De-stressing physical contest<\/strong> full of&nbsp;funny physical activities designed<br \/>\nfor&nbsp;Farzanegan high school<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B3ZCPNE3gkfDcXZ6RGxWQ0ZFdUE\/view?usp=sharing&amp;resourcekey=0-Qx8oVxtxEk1ML3fhzTSvIQ\">Description<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Strike<\/span>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>(2008)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A <strong>hidden identity game<\/strong> for behavior-change purposes designed<br \/>\nfor Iran national medical conference<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B3ZCPNE3gkfDRmlMRzFob2ZGdjQ\/view?usp=sharing&amp;resourcekey=0-UX13FSTeh2yAVfjB5qnuCg\">Description<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Lost Gate<\/span>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>(2008)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Gamifying tourism as an <strong>Alternate Reality Game (ARG)<br \/>\n<\/strong>with behavior-change aspects<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B3ZCPNE3gkfDX09kdHdUZ3FLbm8\/view?usp=sharing&amp;resourcekey=0-JFbbjdHufi_yISI6e0wb9w\">Description<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Sky Gates<\/span>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>(2009)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Gamifying teaching physic in schools as an<br \/>\neducational <strong>single player online game<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B3ZCPNE3gkfDWUswNkl4ZzJBeFE\/view?usp=sharing&amp;resourcekey=0-xS4_-jNNpvRqPhUZZtzyvw\">Description<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 2004, after finishing my master, I was interested in designing serious games within&nbsp;simulated&nbsp;environments. 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