Desenvolvendo um jogo com padrões de interface para ajudar no aprendizado de programação

Abstract

Interface patterns are widely used in current software development. However, there are not many interface patterns for Games. Those that exist are not structured in a clear way for the developer who wants to use them. In this sense, the objective of this work is to collect interface patterns that can be applied in games, and structure them into a template that can be understood and used by developers. For this, a game will be created so that these patterns can be investigated and applied. The theme chosen for the game is programming teaching. With this, studies where analyzed on how games are used in education and what the attempts were to teach programming with them. The way the interface patterns were structured and how they were applied were also studied. The methodology chosen for managing the development of the game and structuring the patterns was a variation of the agile methodology Scrum. Changes in some Scrum were required by existence of only one member in the team. In the results, a catalog of Interface patterns was generated. In addition, an evaluation of the game was made with students and teachers, in which was measure the effectiveness of the game in the teaching of Programming and how patterns affected the perception of those involved.