hACME game: Administrative Interface

Abstract

hACME game is a game based learning tool for teaching software security. The game is intended to help raising awareness and interest in the subject of software security. The purpose of the game is to make future software developers aware of how important security is. A key feature of the game is how it measures the participant's progress and the use of hints. This thesis focus on implementing an administrative interface for hACME game enabling easier access to statistics and results by admin users. The foundation for the thesis is a project written in the autumn semester of 2010 by Christian Berrum and Morten Weel Johnsen. The project thesis contained a conceptual design for the administrative interface.The result is a fully functional implementation of the administrative interface. The administrative interface consists of functionality for doing management tasks and getting statistics about the game and user progress. The thesis also focuses on the implementation of questionnaires in order to get information about the player's learning process.