   DoomEd is a single-player first person shooter learning game that combines
science and history with FPS action, taking players through the horror of
bio-terrorism and WWII chemical experimentation gone wrong.
(If you would like to play DoomEd, you will need to have Half Life 2 installed on
your PC.)
The
backstory mixes factual content (the WW2 experiments at Porton Down, Chemical
Defence Experimental Station, ‘urban exploration’ in disused London underground
stations) with fiction and fantasy (a lost labyrinth populated with human
mutants and military personnel who believe the war is still going on).
The action is set in the labyrinth of lost London underground stations
and tunnels that have not been in operation for over fifty years. The game
follows the conventions of FPS gameplay - interweaving between
orientation/exploration and action/warfare with mutants but replacing puzzles
with science-based problems and puzzles, drawing on appropriate aspects of the
KS4 science curriculum.
Game Video:
You are Maxine Squire, an undergrad scientist and part-time urban explorer. You
are on the tube home after a night out in the West End. It’s late, you’re alone
in the carriage, passing from station to station, dark to light, when
unexpectedly, the train stops - at Down Street. You’ve never heard of Down
Street. The doors open. A second’s pause. You can’t resist - you step onto the
platform. The doors close with a slam and the train moves off, disappearing from
sight.
As you look around you see old posters and signs: ‘Dig for
Victory’ and ‘Return Fare 2d’. Bemused, but deadly curious, you walk into the
only open tunnel. In the distance you hear a tortured scream…
DoomEd is a learning and games research project from DESQ and University of
Wolverhampton School of Education.
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