TimeMesh – a serious game for european citizenship

• Author(s): Baptista, Ricardo ; Carvalho, Carlos Vaz de
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/3419
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Subject(s): Serious games; Game-based learning; Adventure games; History; Europe
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Serious games are games where the entertainment aspect is not the most relevant motivation or objective. TimeMesh is an online, multi-language, multiplayer, collaborative and social game platform for sharing and acquiring knowledge of the history of European regions. As such it is a serious game with educational characteristics. This article evaluates the use of TimeMesh with students of 13 and 14 years-old. It shows that this game is already a significant learning tool about European citizenship.