Interactive Game creation

As opposed to the integration of complex, expensive in production and commercialised games in didactical settings, this project clearly follows the second approach in serious game- based learning that involved learners and transform them into game structures and principles.

The project aims and outputs are:

- To develop a freely available online editor published under the open - source principles for serious game creation that helps teachers and students that lack a technical background to actively participate in the game - creation process.

- To develop an online- portal and game- server that makes these newly created games available and features them in a miniature virtual world to facilitate the exchange and further creation of serious online- games for learning.

- To facilitate the integration of games from the online- portal / game- server in learning management systems (e.g. Moodle) and social communities.

- To offer the game editor in the following languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Finninsh and Dutch.

This novel learning and teaching approach of the project leads to an enhanced participation of the learners in their own learning process and addresses know- how, abilities, skills and models ways of communication and social networking, which young people are familiar with today. Thus students will be made to teachers by offering their expertise in gaming and social networking. Teachers can easily integrate their content- related expertise without the need for technical know- how or background. Additional impacts are cross- cultural interactions between users and developers as well as an increase in learners’ motivation and competences.

Master-D will be a partners in this project working closely with EDEN network in the Quality Plan and other activities.

The proposed project, presented in 2009 under the LLL programme transversal programme KA3 will be presented again in 2010 under the same educational programme.

The Executive Agency has adopted the lists of selected projects on 3 August 2009 (Decision EACEA/PR-INF/2009-19). The lists of applications selected for funding and in reserve, are provided here. Our application received 28 points, score of 70%, on the award criteria and not been selected for Community co-funding.

The project aim and objective will remain the same in the next project proposal but the new incorporations to the partnership will be studied. Master-D is already working on this so if you are interested in taking part of this innovative project please do not hesitate to contact us.