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Extending Educational Games Across Product Lines

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Videogame Sciences and Arts (VJ 2023)

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Some students with limited class time have lost their all interest in what is being taught. This may be a result of the current teaching method, which is heavily centered on the instructor and slides. Keeping this in mind, a large number of researchers are implementing new teaching strategies that emphasize active techniques, such as task-based learning, videos, and games. The majority of educational games are built from previously established games, either by expiry or modification, which is referred to as Software Reuse (SR). Software Product Line is one of the primary areas of SR, and it is a technique that seeks to bring together systems that have a particular set of comparable functionality, such as a series of similar games. Considering this, the purpose of this research is to develop a product line of educational games in order to simplify game production in this field.

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Castro, D., Werner, C., Xexéo, G. (2024). Extending Educational Games Across Product Lines. In: Vale Costa, L., et al. Videogame Sciences and Arts. VJ 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1984. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51452-4_10

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