CMX

CMX was develloped by Christos Malliarakis as part of his Ph.D. (2011-2015):

"Serious games for teaching and learning computer programming: design, development and evaluation of a customizable educational Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG)", Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, October2015.(Supervisor: Prof. Satratzemi Maya, Advisors: Prof.Refanidis Ioannis, Assistant Prof. Xinogalos Stelios)

Available from: Digital Library and Institutional Repository, University of Macedonia: https://dspace.lib.uom.gr/handle/2159/18686

CMX was one of the 6 finalists among 40 competitors in the 2nd Educational Games Competition and the winner of the install-based games category. The competition was held as part of the 8th European Conference in Game-based Learning in Berlin, 8-9 October, 2014 (ECGBL 2014).

The CMX educational game is a Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) and aims to familiarize secondary school students that are novices to computer programming with concepts such as variables, if-statements, loops etc, and engage them in algorithmic logic. It is different than existing systems, since the game supports different functionalities for the student (player), the teacher (tutor), the administrators and other educational agents, according to each user type’s role in the game.

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