Building a Working Prototype for Your E-Learning Game Concept #471

Interactive Prototypes in E-Learning #471: Challenge | Recap

Welcome back to part two of our e-learning game design challenge.

Last week, you laid the groundwork with your design concepts and visual storyboards. 

Now, it’s time to bring those ideas to life with functional prototypes. This week, you’ll build a working model to test your game’s functionalities and interactive components. Your example should give us a clear preview of your game's key features and gameplay interactions.

🏆 Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to build an interactive prototype to test specific functionalities or components. 

The goal is to create a functional version of your game that you can test and refine over the next two weeks. Think of this as the halfway point between the design concepts you created last week and the final version of your project. 

Don’t worry about making this version of your game perfect. You’re only creating a working model of your project.

Keep it simple, focus on the essentials, and let us know if you need help or have any issues.

Week 1: Concept & Storyboarding

Week 2: Prototype Development

• Goal: Build a working prototype of your game
• Deliverables:
• Create a rough prototype of the game with basic interactions and navigation
• Build the basic game functionality with questions, scoring, and feedback
• Focus on core interactions and basic navigation
• Submit to Review 360 to gather initial feedback (optional)

Week 3: Development & Review

Week 4: Final Testing & Project Submission

✨ Share Your E-Learning Work

• Comments: Use the comments section below to link your published example and blog post.
• Forums: Start a new thread and share a link to your published example.
• Personal blog: If you have a blog, please consider writing about your challenges. We'll link to your posts, so your great work gets even more exposure.
• Social media: If you share your demos on Twitter or LinkedIn, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can follow your e-learning coolness.

🙌 Last Week’s Challenge:

Before you move from concept to prototype, check out the storyboard ideas your fellow challengers shared over the past week:

Game Show Design: Storyboards RECAP #470: Challenge | Recap

👋 New to the E-Learning Challenges?

The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.

Learn more about the challenges in this Q&A post and why and how to participate in this helpful article. 

📆 Upcoming Challenges

• Challenge #472 (08.02): Week 3: Production & Development

• Challenge #473 (08.09): Week 4: Final Testing & Project Submission