Firewall Defense: um jogo sério colaborativo

Abstract

With the expansion of educational games, new alternatives are being researched to improve learning. Among them are the collaborative games, which seek to involve all the participants, in order to establish a negotiation in favor of the group, to fulfill tasks and/or objectives. Considering this question, the present work presents a serious collaborative game, whose goal is to provide collaboration, taking into account the necessary requirements for it to actually happen, thus stimulating student engagement and helping them to obtain a better content and can enhance and/or develop their cognitive skills. In order to validate the proposal described here, a prototype was developed in the multiplayer format, taking into account some important requirements to promote collaboration, according to the Collaboration Model 3C, such as: communication, definition of roles/functions, cooperation, decision making, game vision, goal setting, among others. The aforementioned prototype was applied and evaluated with a group of students from the Computing area. In addition to the analysis of the data generated by the prototype, a questionnaire was used, divided into three parts: user profile, game and collaboration analysis. The results of the analysis show that the proposal presented has great potential as a tool for collaboration and learning, and also encourages students to engage in exchange and/or search for knowledge.