Combining educational MMO games with real sporting events

Alun Evans; Javi Agenjo; Juan Abadia; Miriam Balaguer; Marco Romeo; Daniel Pacheco; Ernesto Arroyo; Josep Blat

Combining educational MMO games with real sporting events

Alun Evans^*, Javi Agenjo, Juan Abadia, Miriam Balaguer, Marco Romeo, Daniel Pacheco, Ernesto Arroyo, Josep Blat

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Department of Basic, Developmental and Educational Psychology

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

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Abstract

The concept of the Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) game is well established, with several multimillion euro productions (such as World of Warcraft and Eve Online) demonstrating the appeal of the genre. Yet few, if any, of these games bring any aspect of real-time, real-world data into the game. Sporting events, such as the Barcelona World Race sailing regatta, increasingly provide such live real time data, which can be integrated within a game environment to create a MMO competition between 'virtual' competitors and 'real' competitors. This paper presents the planning, design, implementation and overview of an educational MMO game to accompany the Barcelona World Race 2010/2011, and discusses the differences in design and implementation for games of this type.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 6th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI 2011
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 2011

Keywords

events
MMO games
races

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