(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2011-05-31) ALVES, Daniel Ferreira Monteiro; ALBUQUERQUE, Eduardo Simões de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8181318469884254
The number of people joining the Computer Science course, in the last years, is decreasing.
Among those who enter, just a few are able to graduate, because there is a great
retention rate and dropout, particularly among the introductory courses in algorithms and
programming. The use of games as a motivational factor is a subject much studied in
recent years, achieving good results for this problem. However, for the implementation
of games in education, using a constructionist approach, students are required to build
games. Several tools are available for this job, but there is a big difference in usability
between the educational tools (that focus on educational programming) and those specific
for creating games. This work proposes a framework for building games, being supported
by an extensible application through scripts which allow it to be adapted for use in various
disciplines throughout the course, and not only in introductory courses.