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Welcome to LudoLearnCraft (LLC)

Supporting educators in designing high-quality serious games

LudoLearnCraft (LLC) is a comprehensive game design wizard for educational professionals interested in creating serious games. It provides step-by-step guidance and customizable templates for designing digital scenario-based games. This wizard allows for balancing educational and gaming elements effectively, and enables importing designs into a playing environment of your choice.

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ABOUT LudoLearnCraft

Empowering Educators, Simplifying Game Creation

In today’s educational landscape, the need for providing more active and meaningful online education is urgent but not resolved. High quality serious games hold potential, but appear hard to be crafted by educators, without the help of instructional designers (ID) or educational technologists (ET). Such ID and ET knowledge has now been incorporated into the LudoLearnCraft game design wizard, developed by the Open University of the Netherlands. This interactive tool empowers teachers in crafting playful online learning experiences through an intuitive interface. Rooted in Instructional Design, Game Design and Learning theory, LudoLearnCraft makes game creation both effective and enjoyable.

Why LudoLearnCraft?

A story about Supporting Innovation

Imagine Sarah, a dedicated university professor who is passionate about her subject but not an expert in game development. She envisions an interactive game to make her teaching targeting students’ skill development come more alive but feels overwhelmed by where to begin. LudoLearnCraft steps in to bridge this gap.
Through a series of targeted questions rooted in instructional and game design principles, and an intuitive user interface, LudoLearnCraft removes the complexities of game development. It empowers Sarah to translate her learning goals into a captivating and effective game by following a step-wise design approach, bringing her vision to life without the usual hassles. Using LLC results in scenario- based games that students can play to acquire their competences for future professional contexts.

How does it work?

Seamless Integration of Teaching Expertise and Game Design

Game Initialization

Provide essential information about your game, such as the title and a brief description.

Defining Key Pillars

Establish the main goal for your game, focusing on the main cognitive skills and the corresponding subject matter.

Game Construction

Utilize templates to create Challenges with embedded feedback. Challenges consist of structured scenes and slides, incorporating interactive elements such as quizzes, drag-and-drop activities, and multimedia components.

Publish and Launch

Release your game to a broader audience, using built-in analytics tools to monitor engagement and collect players’ feedback.

Development Phases

From Concept to Creation: The Journey of Creating LudoLearnCraft

Preliminary Research and User Study

Analysis, Planning and Prototyping

Development

Prototype Testing

Pre-Alpha Testing

Polishing and Optimization

Beta Version Testing & Deployment

Development Phases

From Concept to Creation: The Journey of Creating LudoLearnCraft

Preliminary Research and User Study

Analysis, Planning and Prototyping

Development

Prototype Testing

Pre-Alpha Testing

Polishing and Optimization

Beta Version Testing & Deployment

Contact Us

For more information, reach out through our contact form or visit us at our office.

    Try out this innovative wizard for game design!

    LudoLearnCraft offers open source software for supporting and customizing the design of scenario-based serious games. We invite you to join the Open University of the Netherlands in creating online educational experiences that are both engaging and effective.