JIndie: uma abordagem baseada no reuso de software e linha de produto de software para jogos construcionistas

Abstract

The education in Brazil shows a deficiency in the quality of teaching, so that many teachers and businessmen realize that students that complete the basic education are not ready to assume their role in society yet. One of the factors contributing to the low quality of education, according Papert, can be seen in the break of the incentive to search for new knowledge, which usually occurred when the student starts to go to school. A strategy adopted to motivate the student to search for new knowledge occurs through of constructionism, in which to learn about a particular content, the student needs to create some concrete material. The development of these concrete material may become easier through the use of computers and games that provide a virtual world in which the player has all the tools necessary to create an artifact about the subject studied. To facilitate the development of these games, which often fail to be completed due to the effort invested, the developers can use a Software Product Line, which is a software intensive production system for a particular domain. This paper presents an approach and the JIndie Software Product Line that aims to be a Software Product Line for developing constructionist games. To validate Software Product Line proposed in this work, a case study was carried out with the production of four games to assess the feasibility to implement constructionist games using JIndie, as well as to evaluate the performance and tools used in the process. The case study reveals a satisfactory result in game development capabilities, as well as a production with low complexity and effort by the game developer.