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A Model-Driven Framework for Educational Game Design

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Games and Learning Alliance (GALA 2015)

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Educational games are a class of serious games whose main purpose is to teach some subject to their players. Despite the many existing design frameworks, these games are too often created in an ad-hoc manner, and typically without the use of a game design document (GDD). We argue that a reason for this phenomenon is that current ways to structure, create and update GDDs do not increase the value of the artifact in the design and development process. As a solution, we propose a model-driven, web-based knowledge management environment that supports game designers in the creation of a GDD that accounts for and relates educational and entertainment game elements. The foundation of our approach is our devised conceptual model for educational games, which also defines the structure of the design environment. We present promising results from an evaluation of our environment with eight experts in serious games.

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    Available at: http://seriousgamesdesign.com.

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    Our questionnaire is available at: http://seriousgamesdesign.com/paper/questionnaire/eval_form.php.

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    Available at: http://seriousgamesdesign.com/paper/results/results.php.

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  1. Department of Multi-Actor Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Bill Roungas

  2. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Fabiano Dalpiaz

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  2. Information and Computer Science, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Remco Veltkamp

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Roungas, B., Dalpiaz, F. (2016). A Model-Driven Framework for Educational Game Design. In: De Gloria, A., Veltkamp, R. (eds) Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9599. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40216-1_1

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