RFPG - Game Design and Preliminary Evaluation of a Game to Support Algorithms and Programming Teaching

• Eduardo Leal de Carvalho UNIPAMPA
• Jean Felipe Patikowski Cheiran UNIPAMPA http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9466-6908

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/eres.2024.4317

Abstract

The present work describes the game design and evaluation process of the Red Fox Programming Game (RFPG), a serious game to support programming teaching. RFPG's gameplay is based on the souls-like genre and turn-based action. The player controls a warrior fox who must defeat challenging enemies that attack using patterns. The player must identify these patterns and code in a command prompt the actions to counterattack. The game design was represented by paper prototyping and three professors of Algorithms and Programming courses participated in usability tests with the prototype. The technique made it possible to detect improvements that could be implemented in the final version of the software.

Keywords: algorithms, programming, teaching, game design, paper prototyping

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