LIN TRANSFORMERS
LIN TRANSFORMERS

Summary/Abstract: Confronting students with the recognition of Linear Algebra notions in everyday life is the main e- learning goal of "LinTransformers" video game, which we present in this paper. A strange tower, a solitary robo-hero and a desert planet are the premises of the game. The hero's journey towards discovering the way to achieve human status (in both body and spirit) is the main goal of the character and the player's to be achieved mission. The robot's quest leads him across various chambers and floors corresponding to the route inside the mysterious tower, and involving the player's progress through the different levels of the game. The main characteristic of the game are conceptual understanding and alternative enhancing methodologies. Notions like linear operators and their eigenvectors turn into key concepts for survival and progress within the game strategy. Opening doors, avoiding traps, and collecting items is just a pretext for mastering rotations, translations and scaling transformations in the Linear Algebra notations. Guessing is not a valid strategy, since slightly different linear operators imply strong changes in the progress of the game. Wrong answers are punished within the game's story (lost items or even death). Nevertheless, there is no manifest intention in teaching Mathematics through the game, its main goal being rather to attract students towards a deeper comprehension of the concepts taught in the standard academic course. From a technical point of view, the elements of the game are designed in Autodesk 3DS Max and Unity 3D Engine, meeting all the demands of a captivating and interesting third person game.

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