Authorware Tool

Customer: Sweden
Start date: 01.09.2009
End date: 01.02.2010
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Description:

Game web-application Authorware Tool is designed to teach children foreign languages. In the game manner the student can pass the so-called scenarios. Scenario - a kind of quest-game. The player can choose what character to say and it depends on which path the scenario goes and its outcome. The outcome can be positive or negative, depending on what decisions are taken by a player during the passage of the quest. Characters answers and phrases can be not only in text form, but also in the form of sound or video. After completing the scenario, the student can do the job on the mistakes. The system will hold it all over the scenario and show where he took a wrong or not quite right choice.

The application consists of server and client parts. The server side - the so-called scenarios-designer. You can create and save new scenarios. Scenario creator must choose from existing characters or create a new one. Then you need to create a scenario structure. It supports hot keys, so a scenario basic skeleton making process is simple and fast. In the scenario you can add any number of branches, set options for the outcome, attache multimedia files to each phrase of the character. Multimedia files are available in collections, which can be replenish by your files. Audio files can be downloaded from your computer or recorded from a microphone online. To organize the audio stream recording media server Red5 was used.

The client side application - web-player and mobile player. Stident can play scenario either in a browser, or in a mobile phone. The results are stored on the server, so you can to continue the passage of the script at any moment.

The application was integrated with other complex learning system, written in the Java-technology.

Used technologies:
Flex, ActionScript3, Red5, Java, J2ME.
Involved experts - 5 men:
Manager (Ternavsky Eugene); Web developer (Belousov Eugene); Web developer (Burtsev Sergey); Designer (Garmash Elena); Tester (Fomin Aleksandr)
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