GAME COMPETITION AWARD

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).

CMX: Learn, code, play, collaborate, win

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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CMX PROGRAMMING PRISM

Each stakeholder has a different view of the way the CMX game will be used for its corresponding goals’ achievement.

tHE methodology

The application of web-based multiplayer educational games in education is directly connected with the theory of constructivism.

the framework

The CMX Design framework defines generic metrics that will need to be instantiated based on the different user type.

13/11/2015

The demo games have been uploaded!

11/09/2015

Our website has been updated. Join our forums and be an active member of our community.

05/30/2015

Our new website is up and active. Soon so will the game.

CMX: THE Scenario

According to the game’s scenario, there are two opposite teams, named the “hackers” and the “crackers” correspondingly. The hackers are paid employees of a toxic waste factory while crackers are activists that are trying to invade the factory’s system and interfere in their business. The game includes a number of Senseis, which are special characters in the storyline that are trying to teach the players how to engage in computer programming as well as provide helpful hints. If the players manage to solve the required tasks, then they collect a series of secret weapons, power with points as well as spells they can use inside the factory when they are faced against the opposite team.