Serious Game Design of Cultural Heritage Education based on the Experiential Learning Cycle Model

Traditional cultural heritage education mainly relies on the museum’s display design and supplementation of exogenous materials, and most digital cultural heritage displays are based on the same principle. This process makes it difficult for tourists to absorb cultural knowledge actively and effectively. This article proposes a serious game of cultural heritage education based on the experiential learning cycle model, which provides a single-player experience environment on the computer with 3D modeling in the context of cultural heritages, and strengthens people’s active construction of cultural heritage knowledge through game narrative, interaction and knowledge cards. Subsequently, a user test was conducted to verify whether the game design plays a role in real users. A total of 55 postgraduates participated in the experiment. Results show that the proposed design is feasible and can play a positive role in enhancing the learning effect, learning experience and learning initiative of learners, but more comprehensive tests are still needed to better investigate its use in formal education environments.