Happy Home (Mohamed Elmejrab)

Welcome to Happy Home, 

This game is graduation project towards a Master's Degree in Computer Games from the University of Essex, created by Mohamed Elmejrab and supervised by Dr. Katerina Bourazeri in the year 2021-2022.

The game aims to teach children aged 5-10 about water/energy conservation, and to make them adopt environmentally positive behaviors, this is done through bits of info shown before and after multiple many games, this info could be a scientific/social fact relevant to the matter, or encouragement towards adopting a certain environment friendly behavior.

Instructions for testing: 

Prior to playing the game, we kindly ask the child to fill this form (https://forms.gle/uDdHVEsRNzFjHrX87), the parent should observe and explain any difficult terms, but without affecting the child's opinions, this will set a baseline for their knowledge.

Upon finishing the game, we kindly ask  the child to fill this form (https://forms.gle/GpJZrtjVKaJ6p3pW8), the parent again should observe and explain any difficult terms, but without affecting the child's opinions, this will gauge whether the child felt that they learned something from the game.

Between 4-6 days after the child has finished the game, the parent alone should complete this survey (https://forms.gle/DNVn7DuPvNLVku8L7), this survey will gauge if the child has changed any of their behaviors to be more environmentally friendly after completing the game.

Installation Instructions:

- Windows: Download the ZIP file for windows, extract the contents and run the executable (Happy Home.exe), there may be a firewall warning due to anonymous analytics collected by the game, if possible please allow the connection so we can study the gameplay data/crashes better.

 - Mac OS: Download the DMG file, open it and inside you will find the (Happy-Home-OSX) app, you may face an error that says "Apple cannot scan for malicious software", in such cases please right click the app and choose "Open", this will open a different dialogue which will allow you to play the game, after this the game can be opened normally at any time.

Gameplay controls:

- Use W A S D or Arrow keys to move

- Use the mouse to look around

- Use Escape to pause the game

Credits:

Music & SFX:  Maxwell Russell

Everything else: Mohamed Elmejrab