Adaptive educational games are still in an early stage of development when monitoring “fine-grained student needs and interests” (Magerko, Heeter, & Medler, 2010). Much about how to design and develop adaptive learning games is largely not well-understood. In this paper, we present our approach for designing game mechanics and player metrics toward player modeling, necessary steps toward adaptive educational games. Through our on-going Avian project, we demonstrate how we design gameplay activities to support learners of different player types and design player metrics to capture their behavior patterns for player modeling. We believe that the approach behind our game design can be applied in other adaptive educational games that uses player modeling. We also discuss our future plans to player modeling and the evaluation of our approach.
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