LearnCraft - uma Engine para criação de jogos RPG construcionistas

Abstract

School dropout is a global problem, also occurring in Brazil, with high rates of dropout and disapproval in elementary and high school; among the reasons for this, the lack of interest on the part of the student predminates. Games, as providers of learning experiences, at the same time, motivating, engaging and pleasurable for the apprentices, are an important solution of these problems. Within this context, constructionism appears as a valuable source of theoretical subsidies for the elaboration of educational games, with research demonstrating that the learning process has the potential to occur more naturally and satisfactorily when the learner is engaged in the construction of an artifact . Among the gaming genres, the Role Playing Games nowadays stand out, with great appeal among the new generations of students. Given this educational potential, and as a contribution to the solution of the above mentioned problems, in this work is exposed the authorship of a tool capable of generating constructor games within the RPG genre, without the need of knowledge of programming language by the author.