Games by End-Users: Analyzing Development Environments

Souza, Joana Gabriela Ribeiro de; Prates, Raquel Oliveira

doi:10.1109/sbgames54170.2021.00018

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“…In some instances, games were modeled after existing non-Serious Games, such as Minetest [34]. Customization of games can facilitate goal achievement, highlighting the advantage of developing Serious Games in interdisciplinary teams [51][52][53]. Furthermore, the articles demonstrate positive outcomes in their respective studies.…”

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Serious Games in Higher Education in the Transforming Process to Education 4.0—Systematized Review

Brandl,

Schrader

2024

Education Sciences

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The digital transformation associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution is having an impact on the way we teach. Under the term Education 4.0, new teaching methods, new technologies, as well as a student-centered approach, are expected to be used in teaching. One established method of teaching is the use of Serious Games, as it has various positive effects in terms of motivation and engagement. This paper deals with the question of how the transformation towards Education 4.0 influences the way Serious Games are designed and used in the context of higher education. To this end, a systematized literature review was conducted. Out of 550 publications, 28 were included. This revealed works on the general conception as well as studies on Serious Games in various areas of university teaching. The results show different concepts of Serious Games, with the structure often being adapted to learning content and not to students. In terms of technical implementation, Serious Games are mostly web- or desktop-applications instead of new technologies such as VR. As a result, new concepts seem necessary to adapt Serious Games to Education 4.0. In the future, we want to design Serious Games that respond flexibly to students’ needs and make it easy to integrate new technologies.

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Serious Games in Higher Education in the Transforming Process to Education 4.0—Systematized Review

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Schrader

2024

Education Sciences

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“…GDevelop was chosen due to its popularity and features aimed at non-professionals in game development. It is based on a previous study in which a thorough tool analysis was conducted [Souza and Prates, 2021]. In preparation for the workshop, we generated a tutorial for developing a quiz-type game that explained, step by step, how to interact with the platform to create the game.…”

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“…Although previous experiences with other tools allowed them to understand how to interact with the system easily, they experienced some usability problems. Notwithstanding, the main challenges were as-sociated with understanding and using GDevelop constructs necessary to create a game [Souza and Prates, 2021]. In the next sections, we describe these findings in more detail.…”

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Identifying Challenges for Elementary School Teachers in Building Digital Games through a Workshop

Souza,

Prates

2024

JIS

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To develop technologies that facilitate the creation and customization of digital educational games, this research aimed to explore the use of a game authoring tool by elementary school teachers and to identify the challenges and skills of this public using the tool. Our findings indicate that most of them had difficulties using it due to a lack of digital literacy and many possible configuration settings. They struggled with the steps they needed to complete in the tutorial and understanding concepts such as events, conditions, and actions. On the other hand, they were able to easily arrange the objects in the scenes. As a result, we present a set of recommendations that can be useful to construct new tools for this audience.

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“…Com os desafios impostos pela pandemia do COVID-19, como o ensino emergencial remoto, os professores tiveram que lidar com diversas tecnologias que não conheciam, com a dificuldade de manter o vínculo e interesse dos alunos, além de outras situac ¸ões não vivenciadas na sala de aula física [de Souza and Prates 2022]. Com o intuito de identificar possíveis dificuldades e habilidades de professores do ensino fundamental (EF) brasileiro utilizando ferramentas de autoria de jogo destinada a usuários leigos, este trabalho se propôs a realizar oficinas para o desenvolvimento de um jogo educacional com professores do público alvo.…”

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Desafios para a Construção de Jogos Digitais por Professores do Ensino Fundamental - Relato de Uma Oficina

Souza¹,

Prates²

2023

Anais Do XXXI Workshop Sobre Educação Em Computação (WEI 2023)

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Com o intuito de desenvolver tecnologias que facilitem criar e customizar jogos educacionais digitais, esta pesquisa teve como objetivo explorar o uso de uma ferramenta de autoria de jogos por professores do ensino fundamental, bem como identificar dificuldades e habilidades deste público usando a ferramenta. Os resultados indicam que a maioria deles tiveram dificuldades em utilizá-la por haver muitas configurações possíveis e falta de conhecimento em pensamento computacional. Tiveram dúvidas sobre os passos a seguir, em entender conceitos como eventos, condições e ações, porém conseguiram com facilidade compor os objetos nas cenas. Com isso definimos um conjunto de diretrizes que podem ser observadas para a construção de novas ferramentas para este público.

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Games by End-Users: Analyzing Development Environments

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

Serious Games in Higher Education in the Transforming Process to Education 4.0—Systematized Review

Serious Games in Higher Education in the Transforming Process to Education 4.0—Systematized Review

Identifying Challenges for Elementary School Teachers in Building Digital Games through a Workshop

Desafios para a Construção de Jogos Digitais por Professores do Ensino Fundamental - Relato de Uma Oficina

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