CREANDO – Platform for Game Experiences Base on Pervasive Narrative in Closed Spaces: An Educational Experience

Currently, games that combine the real and virtual worlds have higher availability, wide extension, and better performance thanks to the advances in mobile technologies. These advances allow increasing the accessibility by people. That is why mobile devices have become a fundamental part of daily lives of people. It has involved to people in different types of user experiences as those given by augmented reality, geolocation, virtual reality, among others. This kind of game is defined like Pervasive Game (PG) – it is known also as Pervasive Game Experience (PGE) –, where the game world is extended beyond limits of the virtual world, and it can become in part of the player reality. This kind of games can impact the player lives in a positive or negative way. In this line, the academic and industrial fields have tried to create frameworks and tools to develop PG, but it has been in a separately way. For that reason, this paper describes the design and implementation of a platform that integrates several tools to create and edit game experiences in both fields. This paper focuses the study on the narrative and geolocation applied to close spaces, it is a way of giving an enriched experience to the player. Finally, we present a prototype to validate the platform in the educational context. The game demonstrated the increase in the motivation and learning on students of the first semester of computer engineering about basic knowledge in programming.