A framework related to game development, seeking to combine game design with development, game critique, and technical game research to achieve a better general understanding of games.
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Gamification: Model-Driven Engineering Approaches
Pedro Aguiar (Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal) and Isabel Azevedo (Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2531-9.ch006
Abstract
Gamification has been applied in diverse areas to encourage participation, improve engagement, and even modify behaviors. However, many gamified applications have failed to meet their objectives, and poor gamification design has been pointed out as a recurrent problem, despite a growing number of gamification frameworks and their valuable guidelines. Model-driven engineering approaches have been proposed as possible solutions to the deficient, and incoherent, inclusion of several dynamics and mechanics. They allow achieving a formalism that can avoid many errors and inconsistencies in the process. Moreover, these efforts are necessary to achieve a conceptualization of gamification that facilitates its inclusion in applications. Three proposals are analyzed, all based on domain-specific languages (DSL), which allows users to design complex gamification strategies without requiring programming skills. The MDE approach can be used to enrich gamification design by providing a platform that involves various concepts and the necessary connections between them to ensure harmonious designs.