D3.5 Game Design Document

The BEACONING platform is a learning environment supporting interaction among its different users, made of multiple layers, where multiple users can log in: teachers to customize scenarios, give access to them, and exploit the analytics reports about competencies developed; students to pervasively play these scenarios, with procedural adaptation support for disabilities; and authors, such as learning designers and game designers, to create new scenarios. The present document does not take into consideration the gamification, social and analytics layers of the platform, but rather focuses on the "game" part, more precisely how scenarios are created, and what players can expect. Therefore, this document describes what happens when a student launches a scenario, and how the authoring pipeline allows a sequence of multiple different authors to collaborate sequentially and create such a scenario