PRESERVING THE IDENTITY OF ANCIENT EGYPT IN EDUCATIONAL CULTURAL GAME DESIGN

Document Type : Specialized scientific research papers

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1 Graphic and Media, Faculty of Arts and Design, The British University in Egypt, Cairo

2 Graphics and Media, Faculty of Arts and Design, The British University in Egypt, Egypt

10.47436/jaars.2023.144744.1094

Abstract

This study determines the importance of integrating multimedia in education specially in the primary education, which impose a rich use of recent techniques, helping in innovation new approaches which improve the quality of education and the facilitate receiving the information. This standardize the principles of adding typograph, videos, audio, animation, and drawings ratios especially in the ancient Egypt cultural educational games that is used in education. The aim of standardizing these principals is to help the graphic designers to build a successful cultural game built on scientific historic bases, to maintain the identity of the culture, which is the Egyptian culture in this study, this historical background is reflected through design vocabulary which is typography, textures, audio, animation and drawings ratios. Educational games give a visual message through all its details, therefore studying the design vocabulary from a historical aspect is a very important in designing these types of games.

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