Design And Development of a Narrative Based Tabletop Game for Promoting Soft Skills Acquisition in Technical Students in The South African Context

Lance R Bunt
Jacob J. Greeff

JGGAG (Journal of Games, Game Art, and Gamification)
Vol. 5 No. 2 (2020): Special Issue: International Conference of Games, Game Art and Gamification (IC

A serious tabletop game called “Gr8 Success!” has been developed for an undergraduate Communication skills module at the North-West University (NWU) in South Africa. This paper presents the details of the development process and discusses the first play tested prototype of the serious game in question. The game is described in the context of a conceptual framework being developed by researchers at the Serious Game Institute of South Africa (SGI-SA).