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Model for Semi-Automatic Serious Games Generation

Pedro Omar Silva-Vásquez    
Viviana Yarel Rosales-Morales    
Edgard Benítez-Guerrero    
Giner Alor-Hernández    
Carmen Mezura-Godoy and Luis Gerardo Montané-Jiménez    

Resumen

Serious games (SG), (video games with an educational purpose), provide teachers with tools to strengthen their students? knowledge. Developing a SG requires knowledge, time, and effort. As a result, specialized tools to aid in the development process are needed. This work presents a model for the development of SG in the platformer genre. A tool implementing the model is introduced as a proof of concept. A SG was generated using this tool, which in turn was evaluated in terms of gameplay, mechanics, story, and usability. The evaluation results show that the SG has the minimum elements requested by an audience of students, who were expecting a game with both entertaining and educational value. Furthermore, the results are satisfactory in three out of four areas, showing that there are opportunities for improvement regarding the game?s story. Our work intends to improve the development times of new SG, as well as to make them easier to develop by both software engineers and teachers who wish to implement them in their classrooms.

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