Co-creative serious games design process using nonlinear storyline editing

Here we present a serious game development process. The process is characterized by the collaboration in the development by contributors of wide range of skills, including end-users with no special skills in information technology. The aim of the game is to teach a broad range of information and communication technology skills as well as general practices required in the working life. For this purpose a rich content open world multiplayer game has been developed. The game design is highly modular allowing concurrent and continuous development process. Modular tasks are learning experiences crafted by experts in certain aspect of target skills. But tasks themselves can be customized easily without special skills. Especially, interactive non-linear dialogues between user and computer controlled characters inside the tasks can be created by end-users.