BROAD-PLG: modelo computacional para construção de jogos educacionais

Abstract

The advantages of using games for educational purposes can be considered as a consensus among teachers and students. However, serious games constitute complex and expensive to produce multimedia objects. The multidisciplinary nature of educational games requires the involvement and coordination of a specialized team. With the objective of assisting in the development of educational games is proposed the computational model BROAD-PLG. The model consists of a high-level architecture, domain modeling based on features that describe three different faces of educational games and application engineering tool that allows instantiation of a framework ready to be used in game development. The separation of concerns splits the domain of educational games into sets of features that include educational aspects of game mechanics and gamification elements. At the end of the work three different application examples are constructed demonstrating these three aspects. In reviewing the examples it can be concluded that the broad-PLG despites being in the initial stage shows great potential to be used as a tool in generating applications as reference in modeling the problem domain.