Responsible

Xavier Rubio Campillo

Research group

DIDPATRI

Lead Researcher

Xavier Rubio Campillo

Institution

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Design and development of video games that have been conceived with an educational goal from their inception, with great interactive and empathic capabilities that offer a very appealing gaming experience. This captures the interest of an audience who is usually on the sidelines when it comes to educational and science popularisation activities, but who show great interest in video games. Moreover, it makes the most of the great teaching abilities that video games offer through well-developed designs and mechanics.

The video games that are designed include accessibility measures: reinforced subtitles for sound elements, as well as customisable fonts, colours, etc. This not only broadens their potential audience, but also reinforces their educational nature by guaranteeing that all users have the same opportunities to learn and enjoy them.

They also include a platform to analyse player behaviour that can measure the effectiveness of the mechanics in relation to each player and their learning process, as well as extracting general behaviour patterns and studying how learning based on video games functions.

Currently, three games have been published (for mobile, PC, MAC), with a combined total of 300,000 downloads: Evolving PlanetAncestors: Stories of Atapuerca, and Julia: A Science Journey (the latter won the Best Fully Developed Digital Game award at the International Educational Games Competition, October 2023).

Category
  • Service
Subject area
  • Subtitling
  • Digital Accessibility

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Front cover of the video game Julia: A Science Journey