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CRC cards and role-play sessions are two techniques widely used in responsibility-driven design and employed as active learning methods to teach object-oriented software design. Based on our experience using them, we propose a game-based approach to take the classroom experience into a virtual environment. We show how the proposed virtual environment must integrate a number of mechanics and we des-cribe one possible interaction metaphor that combines features from first person shooters and sport games, along with its implementation.
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Jiménez-Díaz, G., Gómez-Albarrán, M., González-Calero, P.A. (2008). Role-Play Virtual Environments: Recreational Learning of Software Design. In: Dillenbourg, P., Specht, M. (eds) Times of Convergence. Technologies Across Learning Contexts. EC-TEL 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5192. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87605-2_3
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