Updated information about <e-Adventure>
The <e-Adventure> project was developed as a prototype for my thesis work. It was born as a development process model for educational adventure games, but eventually the tools developed as support for the process model have grown into fully functional products.
We have recently released both the <e-Adventure> editor and the <e-Adventure> engine for everyone to use. Leaving aside the development process model for large teams originally devised, these tools can be used by anyone interested in creating adventure games to create their own adventures without any programming knowledge. In this sense, this tool is trying to compete against initiatives such as the Wintermute Engine or the Adventure Game Studio.
Even if <e-Adventure> is not as mature as those tools, it offers some cool aspects worth checking out. To begin with, the games are stored as human-readable XML documents. This improves the maintainability and allows anyone, even without the editor, to tweak minor aspects of the gam. Additionally, it includes pedagogical features such as an internal assessment and game adaptation to suit learning styles. These mechanisms can actually be controlled from a Learning Management System, enabling online educational processes in which the games are deployed from the server as part of a course, enrichening the learning experience. For example, the games can include interactive exams and the grade can be automatically stored in the server.
I would like to invite my readers to test drive our current release (v0.2) and let us know your first impressions (write us at e-adventure#e-ucm.es) . We are still behind our competitors, but plan on catching up really soon.
