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image: https://gtac.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Immunology-game-screen-3-publish.png
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title: Pathogen Attack!
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type: page
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tags: CSS, JavaScript, HTML, design
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link: https://gtac.edu.au/students/learning-resources/gtacs-immunology-game/
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summary: An educational game for GTAC exploring the human immune system
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location: /cv.06
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template: cv
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This was a javascript-based online game, built for the Gene Technology Access Centre
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([GTAC](https://gtac.edu.au/)). I was mainly involved in the design phase, as opposed
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to the development, but what a design phase it was!
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The goal of this game was to help teach VCE level students about the human immune
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system through an interactive game. Of course, this meant that the first step was to
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learn all about the human immune system. Over a period of many weeks, there were many
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discussions with the GTAC educators, alongside actual immunology experts, to get a
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handle on which cells play a role in the immune system and their function.
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There was a lot of back and forth, gaining knowledge, assembling it and then
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confirming it with the experts. In the process, I think even the educators learned new
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things.
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Afterwards, we had to translate the cells and their processes into game mechanics —
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attacking invading pathogens, recognising pathogens and utilizing the lymphatic nodes
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to produce appropriate T-Cells, sending out different forms of Dendritic Cells and
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acrophages... In the end it became an interesting (and hopefully entertaining)
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real-time strategy game. And I learned a lot about the immune system in the process.
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