Serious Game Classification

Prog&Play Mathieu Muratet (France), IRIT - LIP6 (France), 2008 Download it Now !

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Classification

SERIOUS GAME
(Edugame)

Keywords

Education - Programming - Real-time - Serious game - Strategy

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Educative message broadcasting

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Education
  • Scientific Research

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 17-25 / 25-35
Students

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick DESTROY : explanation of this brick SELECT : explanation of this brick WRITE : explanation of this brick
1 analysis
Prog&Play A serious game designed to ease the learning process of computer programming. Suited for in-class use, it's a real time strategy game where players must control their units through the writing of artificial intelligence scripts.

It's a plugin for the open-source RTS engine "Spring", which adds the possibility to program in Ada, C, Java, OCaml or Scratch on the fly to control player's units. By default, this game is based on the "Kernel Panic" mod, but any Sping mod can actually be used.

Distribution : Internet - Open Source - Free
Platform(s) : PC (Linux) - PC (Windows)

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