Methodologies Used in the Development of Educational Electronic Games: A Literature Review

• Paulo Oliveira IFFAR
• Lisandra Fontoura UFSM
• Roseclea Duarte Medina UFSM

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/cbie.sbie.2020.542

Abstract

The development of educational electronic games has shown to be a powerful tool for teaching and learning. Using an appropriate development methodology provides to achieve the pedagogical objectives, developing a game that meets the requirements initially defined and presents the expected quality. There is still no consensus in the literature regarding which methodologies should be used for the development of pedagogical electronic games. This article describes a systematic literature review that aims to identify the methodologies that have been used in the development of educational electronic games. In the analysis, carried out from the analysis of 19 selected articles, we concluded that although there is no methodological consensus, nor much concern to adaptation to specific cases, user participation, use of agile techniques and potential for the development of computational thinking.

Keywords: educational game, methodology, game design

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