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Designing and creating educational video games is very complex, time-consuming, and expensive. For applying game-based learning in mass, teachers and educators need software platforms and tools for an easy and straightforward design and construction of games for learning. Therefore, the growing need for such software instruments suitable for non-ICT specialists for supporting the video game creation processes is a popular research subject. This paper presents software tools that assist educators in the process of design and creation of educational video games and are integrated into the APOGEE (smArt adaPtive videO GamEs for Education) software platform. The assistive tools are integrated into an online system for the management of both learning and gaming content, which makes a part of the APOGEE platform. They are validated through the design and creation of a video game about history, which is built according to a workflow especially proposed for this purpose.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the BG05M2OP001-1.001-0001 project “Creation and development of “Heritage BG” Centre of Excellence”, Operational Programme “Science and Education for Smart Growth” 2014–2020, and from the National Scientific Program “Information and Communication Technologies in Science, Education and Security” (ICT in SES) financed by the Ministry of Education and Science of Bulgaria.
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Dankov, Y., Bontchev, B., Terzieva, V. (2021). Design and Creation of Educational Video Games Using Assistive Software Instruments. In: Ahram, T.Z., Karwowski, W., Kalra, J. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Systems Engineering. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 271. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80624-8_42
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