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Hello,
I am computer games technology student and will soon be starting a project for a client and am looking into software i can use to create the artefact.

The client is from the pharmacy & biomedical science department of my university. What they want is a teaching aid that will help students learn to diagnose patients.

There are two parts to the product:

1) A Diagnostic Game Maker, allowing educators to create a diagnostic exercise/game. User friendly interface, no scripting required.

2) A Diagnostic Game Client where students can try out their diagnostic skills. Runs in a web page.

My initial idea is to have a scene of a laboratory with microscopes etc the player can click on to run tests and clipboards, charts and photographs that when clicked contain patient information. All of this information will be contained within an external file.

The said files can be created with the 'game maker' where the educator types in the results of tests, patient info etc.

I really want to know if this kind of thing is viable using Impact? I have very little experience in web programming and databases, most of my previous experience has been in c++. I suppose only the game part of the project needs to be made using impact, and the game maker part can be programmed in visual studio or something similar.

Thanks in advance

it is possible

the Game Maker part, might take some time. Because you're essentially trying to create another mini-Weltmeister (it's the name of the level editor in ImpactJS) for the end user.

so both your client, and maker will run on a web server. which is perfect for distribution to students.

you can grab all data from external files, using javascript. Or, you could put them all in a web database, which would be more flexible.