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Ludic Educational Game Creation Tool: Teaching Schoolers Road Safety

2015; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-20684-4_55

1611-3349

Nikolas Vidakis, Efthymios Syntychakis, Kostantinos Kalafatis, Eirini Christinaki, Georgios Triantafyllidis,

Software Engineering and Design Patterns

This paper presents initial findings and ongoing work of the game creation tool, a core component of the IOLAOS(IOLAOS in ancient Greece was a divine hero famed for helping with some of Heracles's labors.) platform, a general open authorable framework for educational and training games. The game creation tool features a web editor, where the game narrative can be manipulated, according to specific needs. Moreover, this tool is applied for creating an educational game according to a reference scenario namely teaching schoolers road safety. A ludic approach is used both in game creation and play. Helping children staying safe and preventing serious injury on the roads is crucial. In this context, this work presents an augmented version of the IOLAOS architecture including an enhanced game creation tool and a new multimodality module. In addition presents a case study for creating educational games for teaching road safety, by employing ludic interfaces for both the game creator and the game player, as well as ludic game design.