A comparison of methodological frameworks for digital learning game design

Methodological frameworks guide the design of digital learning game based on well founded learning theories and instructional strategies. This study presents a comparison of five methodological frameworks for digital learning game design, highlighting their similarities and differences. The objective is to support the choice of an adequate framework, aiming to promote them as a way to foster principled digital learning games design. This paper concludes that: (i) interactivity, engagement and increasing complexity of challenges are fundamental factors to digital learning game design; (ii) the pedagogical base, the target, the possibility of doing game assessment and the presence of practical guidelines are the selection criteria that influence most the choice of a methodological framework, and (iii) the development of digital learning games - preferably by different research teams - is needed to provide empirical evidence of the utility of framework-based design

Desarrollo de un mecanismo de evaluación para medir la efectividad en la colaboración de videojuegos

Tesis (Ingeniero Civil Informático)Este trabajo trata sobre el diseño y desarrollo de los mecanismos de evaluación para un videojuego multijugador colaborativo de puzles que tiene el objetivo de mejorar o desarrollar el pensamiento computacional, planteando la hipótesis de que la colaboración de los integrantes tiene relación con la experiencia de juego y con la diversión, también se incluyeron las etapas de prototipado del mismo videojuego. Se investigaron distintas metodologías y trabajos realizados en el área de videojuegos educativos o serious games, los cuales no sólo tienen el propósito de divertir. En los resultados se pudo observar que la colaboración si tiene un efecto en la apreciación del juego por parte de los jugadores, mejorando los tiempos que tardaron los jugadores en completar un nivel en contraste a lo que tardaron quienes lo jugaron en modalidad single player.This work is about the design and development of the evaluation mechanisms for a collaborative multiplayer videogame of puzzles, which main objective is to enhance and strengthen the computational thinking, stablishing the hypothesis of collaboration of the participants related to the game experience and fun. The stages of the prototype of the game were also included. For this purpose, different methodologies and previous works related to educative videogames were investigated, which main purpose was not only to have fun. In the obtained results, it was evident that collaboration has an effect in the appreciation of the videogame from the players, obtaining remarkable results in the time the players took in the completion of a level in multiplayer mode, in contrast with those that completed the same task in single player modality