Masterclass on Developing Your Serious Games Story

Sign up for my masterclasses on how to leverage on Generative AI to create interesting game stories for your serious games

Participants of my Serious Games Storytelling Masterclass can access the training page here.

Conference presentations:

• Yap KY, Liem M. (17 Sep 2022) Gamifying fantasy with reality: Deconstructing storytelling through Squid Game. Presented as a 3-hour conference workshop at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Education Conference 2022. Organized by SingHealth Duke-National University of Singapore (DUKE-NUS). Held virtually and at The Academia, Singapore.
• Yap KY, Liem M. (8 Jul 2023) How to create good stories for serious games in healthcare: Deconstructing storytelling through Squid Game. Paper presented as a 40-minute main conference academic workshop (Paper 15, Session 12: Human, organisational and social aspects, Room C4.1) at MedInfo23 – The 19^th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, International Convention Center (ICC) Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Organized by the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) and the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA).
• Yap KY, Liem M. (7 Mar 2024) Deconstructing Storytelling for Serious Games: How to Engage, Yet Keep It Real? Conducted as an online course for allied health professionals via Zoom. Organized by the Singapore General Hospital Postgraduate Allied Health Institute (SGH PGAHI), Singapore.

RetroZfecT (RZT)

A fantasy multiplayer online role-playing game (MORPG) for training of 21st century skills

Publications:

• Yap KY, Tan SIBH, Yap KZ. Students’ perceptions of an in-house developed multi-player online role-playing serious game for learning of 21^st century skills – a cross sectional study. Int J Dig Health 2021 Mar; 1(1): 6, 1-13. [DOI: 10.29337/ijdh.30]
• Yap KY, Tan SIBH, Yap KZ, Yap JYG. Students’ perceptions of an in-house developed pharmacy serious game for professional skills training. BMJ Simul Technol Enhance Learn 2020; 6(5): 293-296. [DOI: 10.1136/bmjstel-2019-000547]
• Yap KY, Yap KZ, Yap JYG. Creating a pharmaceutical wonderland based on gaming habits and preferences of Gen C students for the education of medication dispensing and patient counseling. Ind Eng Res 2015; 8(1): 1-21.
• Chang HY, Poh DYH, Wong LL, Yap JYG, Yap KY. Student preferences on gaming aspects for a serious game in pharmacy practice education. JMIR Med Educ 2015; 1(1): e2. [DOI: 10.2196/mededu.3754]
• Yap KY, Yap KZ, Yap JYG. A gamification framework for training of patient and medications management skills. J Game Support Interact Learn 2015; 1(1): 47-58. [DOI: 10.15340/2148194611941]

The Digihealth Eduverse

Attending Continuing Professional Education through your own avatar in the metaverse

Conference Presentations:

• Yap KY. (14-15 Oct 2022) Developing a Metaverse Gallery Exhibition for continuing education of healthcare professionals. Paper presented as a virtual poster (abstr 011) at the Singapore Allied Health Conference, SingHealth Academy, Singapore.
• Yap KY, Liem M. (17-18 Oct 2022) Learner perceptions of the potential of the Metaverse for digital health education. Paper presented as oral presentation (Paper 57) at the Digital Health Summit 2022, organized by the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH), held at the International Convention Center (ICC) Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
• Yap KY. (11 Jul 2023) Developing a digital health Metacademy for continuing professional education. Paper presented as poster presentation (Paper 17) at MedInfo23 – The 19th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, International Convention Center (ICC) Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Organized by the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) and the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA).