Towards a Service-Oriented Architecture Framework for Educational Serious Games

Carvalho, Maira B.; Bellotti, Francesco; Hu, Jun; Hauge, Jannicke Baalsrud; Berta, Riccardo; Gloria, Alessandro De; Rauterberg, Matthias

doi:10.1109/icalt.2015.145

Cited by 16 publications

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“…The first is through building software architectures that support component reuses. It was achieved by Van Der Vegt et al with RAGE architecture [19], Stavrev et al with a modular and multi-input architecture [20], and Carvalho et al with a service-oriented architecture (SoA) framework [21]. The other approach to cost efficiency is through the interplay between two types of contents of educational games: educational content and game content [22].…”

Section: Digital Educational Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Facilitating educational contents of different subjects with context-agnostic educational game: A pilot case study

Atmaja

Muttaqin

Sugiarto

2020

register. jurnal. ilm. teknologi. sistem. inf.

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Educational games are increasingly popular and successful in facilitating various subjects and educational topics. Developing the games are often costly as the developers need to develop specific game content to facilitate each different educational content. One solution to the cost problem is the context-agnostic approach, which allows a game to facilitate educational contents of different subjects or educational topics with zero or minimal modifications to its game content. However, researches on the approach are still scarce, including those aimed at examining real-world applications of the approach. This case study was intended to fill the research gap by examining the application of a context-agnostic educational platformer game in a higher education scenario. The game was used to present educational contents of binary number system and ASCII codes, where both are taught in Informatics Engineering Department. The game was context-agnostic because it was able to flexibly assign educational content elements to various objects in its gameplay. Activity Theory-based Model of Serious Games (ATMSG) was used to guide the design of our educational game. The experiment was conducted with the participation of 60 first-year students of Informatics Engineering Department. The results show that the game can facilitate a more fun and engaging class session for the two educational topics without requiring any changes to the game content. The implication of the results and the implementation complexity of the context-agnostic approach are also discussed.

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Section: Digital Educational Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Facilitating educational contents of different subjects with context-agnostic educational game: A pilot case study

Atmaja

Muttaqin

Sugiarto

2020

register. jurnal. ilm. teknologi. sistem. inf.

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“…The second view is that of decentralized systems where the game is distributed over different domains. Certain aspects of a game should be available in real-time as a service, hence the name Service Oriented Architecture, or SOA (Carvalho et al, 2015). Another aspect of the distributed SGs development is their modular nature.…”

Section: Adaptability In Trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some other authors have worked on a particular part of the 3-way decomposition mentioned above. For instance, recent research is conducted on architecture that is oriented entirely towards services (Carvalho et al, 2014), (Carvalho et al, 2015). Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a set of practices for architectural design of software that exploits services as loosely coupled components orchestrated to deliver various functionalities.…”

Section: Adaptability In Trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Concepts for Distributed Input Independent Architecture for Serious Games

Stavrev

Terzieva

Golev

2018

CBUP

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Serious games (SG) allow us to learn even when we are relaxing. These games are called “serious” because they allow us to be trained at domain-specific knowledge level. That is the main reason SG are gathering an even increasing research interest in recent years. In contrast with traditional, purely entertainment games, SGs architectures and design principles are under active investigation by researchers. Recent work in that field attempts to define how SG are structured, built, used and extended. However, there is still a lot of debate which design techniques are adequate or which techniques can be borrowed from other fields – such as computer science or mainstream entertainment games. The main objective of our research is three-fold: investigate and analyze current architectural approaches; summarize the top characteristics of a modern serious game; and propose an architecture that is coherent with current approaches. Following these principles, we determine that the prevailing views in the SGs area are that they should be distributed and modular, service-based and easily extendible. Building on top of that, we come up with a novel concept for creating serous games that are independent of their input devices and propose two ways that independence can be achieved. We briefly discuss the possible integration of 3-rd party services by using message queue brokers in a publish / subscribe manner. Finally, we summarize and propose different methods for extending our proposed approach.

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“…A recent reusability framework targeting serious games [15,16] relies on a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Within this framework, domain independent features commonly used in serious games are encapsulated into components and implemented as services.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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RAGE Architecture for Reusable Serious Gaming Technology Components

Vegt

Westera

Nyamsuren

et al. 2016

International Journal of Computer Games Technology

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For seizing the potential of serious games, the RAGE project—funded by the Horizon-2020 Programme of the European Commission—will make available an interoperable set of advanced technology components (software assets) that support game studios at serious game development. This paper describes the overall software architecture and design conditions that are needed for the easy integration and reuse of such software assets in existing game platforms. Based on the component-based software engineering paradigm the RAGE architecture takes into account the portability of assets to different operating systems, different programming languages, and different game engines. It avoids dependencies on external software frameworks and minimises code that may hinder integration with game engine code. Furthermore it relies on a limited set of standard software patterns and well-established coding practices. The RAGE architecture has been successfully validated by implementing and testing basic software assets in four major programming languages (C#, C++, Java, and TypeScript/JavaScript, resp.). Demonstrator implementation of asset integration with an existing game engine was created and validated. The presented RAGE architecture paves the way for large scale development and application of cross-engine reusable software assets for enhancing the quality and diversity of serious gaming.

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Towards a Service-Oriented Architecture Framework for Educational Serious Games

Cited by 16 publications

References 10 publications

Facilitating educational contents of different subjects with context-agnostic educational game: A pilot case study

Facilitating educational contents of different subjects with context-agnostic educational game: A pilot case study

Concepts for Distributed Input Independent Architecture for Serious Games

RAGE Architecture for Reusable Serious Gaming Technology Components

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