The RAGE software portal: Toward a serious game technologies marketplace

W. Westera; Baltasar Fernández-Manjón; Rui Prada; Kam Star; Andrea Molinari; Dominic Heutelbeck; Paul Hollins; Ruben Riestra; Krassen Stefanov; E. Kluijfhout

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-11548-7_26

The RAGE software portal: Toward a serious game technologies marketplace

W. Westera, Baltasar Fernández-Manjón, Rui Prada, Kam Star, Andrea Molinari, Dominic Heutelbeck, Paul Hollins, Ruben Riestra, Krassen Stefanov, E. Kluijfhout

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Abstract

This paper presents the RAGE marketplace portal (gamecomponents.eu), which is intended as a hot spot and neutral single point of access for serious game technologies. The portal aims at fostering collaborations and the ex-change of technical artefacts and associated knowledge and resources be-tween different stakeholders in the field of serious gaming (e.g. educators, developers, researchers, publishers, policy makers and end-users). After a brief introduction to the H2020 RAGE project, the flexible design of the marketplace portal and its underlying software repository are presented. A concise overview is given of the initial set of advanced game technology components created by RAGE, that are currently exposed in the portal. For empirical validation of these components, we have developed 7 serious games based on subsets of these components, which were then tested in edu-cational practice with several hundreds of end-users. This game components portal want to be a neutral hub not dependent on any technology or provider and therefore it is open for new game technologies submissions. We envision this marketplace as a knowledge and game technologies hub to support and amplify serious game development.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the GALA-2018 Conference
Editors	Manuel Gentile, Mario Allegra, Heinrich Söbke
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Springer International Publishing AG
Chapter	26
Pages	277–286
Number of pages	10
Volume	11385
Edition	LNCS
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-11548-7
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-11547-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11548-7_26
Publication status	Published - Jan 2019
Event	Games and Learning Alliance conference (GALA 2018) - Palermo, Italy Duration: 5 Dec 2018 → 7 Dec 2018 https://conf.seriousgamessociety.org/

Publication series

Series	Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

Conference

Conference	Games and Learning Alliance conference (GALA 2018)
Abbreviated title	GALA Conference
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Palermo
Period	5/12/18 → 7/12/18
Internet address	https://conf.seriousgamessociety.org/

Keywords

Education
Learning
Learning Technology
Marketplace
Serious Games
Software Components

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Rage: Realising an Applied Gaming Eco-system
Westera, W. (PI), Georgiadis, K. (CoI), Saveski, G. (CoI), van Lankveld, G. (CoI), Bahreini, K. (CoI), van der Vegt, W. (CoI), Berkhout, J. (CoI), Nyamsuren, E. (CoI), Kluijfhout, E. (CoI) & Nadolski, R. (CoI)
European Union
1/02/15 → 31/07/19
Project: Research

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Westera, W., Fernández-Manjón, B., Prada, R., Star, K., Molinari, A., Heutelbeck, D., Hollins, P., Riestra, R., Stefanov, K., & Kluijfhout, E. (2019). The RAGE software portal: Toward a serious game technologies marketplace . In M. Gentile, M. Allegra, & H. Söbke (Eds.), Proceedings of the GALA-2018 Conference (LNCS ed., Vol. 11385, pp. 277–286). Springer International Publishing AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11548-7_26

Westera, W. ; Fernández-Manjón, Baltasar ; Prada, Rui et al. / The RAGE software portal : Toward a serious game technologies marketplace . Proceedings of the GALA-2018 Conference. editor / Manuel Gentile ; Mario Allegra ; Heinrich Söbke. Vol. 11385 LNCS. ed. Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019. pp. 277–286 (Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)).

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