Educational games always aim to teach content in a playful and fun way, usually with an average gameplay time of 5 to 10 minutes. The big challenge for the projects is that we had to deliver an average of 8 games per month.

To be able to meet the delivery volume, the first step of the project was to establish the types of possible interactions for the games. This way we could create a library of mechanics and templates that would make the process faster.

We established that games would derive from classic game mechanics such as Drag-and-Drop, Liga-Lea (Association), Memory, Puzzles, Point-and-Click, Visual Novels, and Progression Side-Scrollers.

With the games’ functioning established, we started to build graphic libraries and user interface components.

With each new game, the responsible team got together to understand the didactic content and think about the best interactions, metaphors, and analogies to tell the game’s story. This step was carried out alongside the school network to ensure that the didactic metrics they wanted to collect were achieved.

After this phase, the game prototype was developed, and tested by the internal team and the partner. Any bugs were fixed and the final version was built.

Problem:

Create fun games with short gameplay using classic game mechanics.

Goals:

• Create libraries of classic game mechanics and graphic templates for reuse;
• Rapid prototyping;
• Fulfill a pedagogical objective of transmitting content;
• Be fun;