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The selection of a video game engine to develop core assets of a Software Product Line (SPL) of mini games could be highly influenced by the requisites of the SPL, differentiating it from the usual selection criteria applied when building complex video games. This article presents a comparative analysis between two video game engines, unity and P5. The purpose of this analysis was to select the most appropriate option to implement the SPL core assets. Taking into account the requirements of the products to be generated from the SPL, we found that the option initially proposed as the most appropriate did not meet the most relevant requirements of the SPL.
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This work is part of the project No. 125174455451, titled “Apoyo a la Terapia de Rehabilitación del Lenguaje Oral y Escrito en Niños con Discapacidad Auditiva”. This project is funded by the Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación de la República de Colombia (COLCIENCIAS).
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Sierra, M., Pabón, M.C., Rincón, L., Navarro-Newball, A., Linares, D. (2019). A Comparative Analysis of Game Engines to Develop Core Assets for a Software Product Line of Mini-Games. In: Peng, X., Ampatzoglou, A., Bhowmik, T. (eds) Reuse in the Big Data Era. ICSR 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11602. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22888-0_5
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