Adapting a Commerical Role-Playing Game for Educational Computer Game Production

This article presents a different method of creating a game that we haven't considered yet.

Researchers at the University of Alberta have used the Aurora Toolset to create adventures using the Neverwinter Nights engine. The benefits to this approach is again a more specialized set of tools -- and one that will create a more professional feel for the game. To mitigate some of the scripting challenges in game making, they developed the tool "ScriptEase" that helps manage interactive events for NVN authors.

I think RPGMaker will probably work for our purposes, but if using it to create mini-games proves to be difficult, this is another alternative we might consider.