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Interactive Digital Storytelling Based Educational Games: Formalise, Author, Play, Educate and Enjoy! - The Edugames4all Project Framework

Authors : Andreea Molnar, Patty Kostkova

Published in: Transactions on Edutainment XII

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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In this paper we present an Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS) formalisation that captures the IDS logic constraints. This was implemented in a game engine and an authoring tool was created to facilitate the development of IDS based games. We created several IDS based games using the proposed engine and authoring tool. They were used as case studies in this research. We also present some of the challenges we encountered once the games were implemented and how we addressed them.

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Title: Interactive Digital Storytelling Based Educational Games: Formalise, Author, Play, Educate and Enjoy! - The Edugames4all Project Framework
Authors: Andreea Molnar
Patty Kostkova
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book: Transactions on Edutainment XII
Print ISBN: 978-3-662-50543-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-662-50544-1

Copyright Year: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-50544-1_1

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