TimeMesh: an educational historical game

• Author(s): Gouveia, David ; Lopes, Duarte ; Carvalho, Carlos Vaz de ; Baptista, Ricardo
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/3414
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Subject(s): Serious games; E-Learning; History; Online game
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

The TIMEMESH game, developed in the scope of the European Project SELEAG, is an educational game for learning history, culture and social relations. It is supported by an extensible, online, multi-language, multi-player, collaborative and social platform for sharing and acquiring knowledge of the history of European regions. The game has been already used, with remarkable success, in different European countries like Portugal, Spain, England, Slovenia, Estonia and Belgium.