Title: Adding educational funcionalities to classic board games,
Abstract: In this paper we revisit some classic board games like Pachisi or the Game of
Gosse. The main contribution of the paper is to design and add some
functionalities to the games in order to transform them in serious games, that
is, in games with learning and educational purposes. To do that, at the
beginning of the game, players choose one or several topics and during the
game, players have to anwers questions on these topics in order to move their
markers. We choose classic board games because a lot of people are familiar
with them so it is very easy to start to play without wasting time learning
game rules and, we think that this is an important element to make the game
more attractive to people. To enlarge the number of potential users we have
implement the games just using html and javascript and the games can be used in
any web browser, in any computer (including tablets) , in any computer
arquitecture (Windows, Mac, Linux) and no internet/server conexion is required.
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