Game Wizard

• Autor(a) principal: Gonçalves, Francisco Duarte Simões
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/23416
• topic: Game Wizard; Game Engine; Educational Games; Domínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática

Currently there is a growing demand for educational games and a consequent investment in this area. These games are mainly used to spread knowledge in an appealing and motivating way, in an attempt to reach different types of public. This demand, coupled with the need to adapt and customize the final product regarding the users’ ideas is limited, since the creation of new solutions that meet these needs is a complex process due to the specific knowledge required for its achievement. The present study emerged from these facts. As a main objective of this research work and in order to overcome the previously presented problems, a solution will be proposed to simplify the process of creating these games. For this purpose, content loading and manipulation mechanisms were used, making it a solution available to all, regardless of the level of specific technical knowledge, usually necessary for its use. As a possible solution, a game creation platform and an Android application will be developed. The game creation platform will consist of a web application for uploading content (images, sounds, questions and answers) to the server and database, the content will later be imported and used in the Android application. The Android application will consist of a mechanism that includes a set of modules that will be filled with the imported content, thus creating custom games and making them available to the player. In the end, this solution will allow the creation of a simple and intuitive product, easy to use by anyone and that can generate games by filling in the necessary components such as images, sounds and questions