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Development of a video game for teaching in an electrical machine laboratory

John Ramirez¹, Sergio Rivera²

1 Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
2 Universidad Nacional de Colombia

* Corresponding Authors: John Ramirez (), Sergio Rivera ()

Revista Internacional de Métodos Numéricos para Cálculo y Diseño en Ingeniería 2022, 38(2), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.23967/j.rimni.2022.03.013

Accepted 17 March 2022; Issue published 01 April 2022

Abstract

Nowadays, the world has focused on digital media. There have been voices for and against virtual education. Gamification has been described as a strategy to transmit knowledge through the design and use of games. This article describes the first phase of the development of a game aimed at the transmission of knowledge related to engineers dedicated to the commercialization, diagnosis, and repair of induction motors; these are electrical machines widely used in industry. In this way, this paper shows the Electric Motor Store Simulator (hereinafter STME for its acronym in Spanish) is a free software project that aims to develop a game for users to have a closer idea about small businesses. It was developed as a minimum viable product under free software licensing, which allows anyone with the necessary knowledge to expand the functionality by adding or improving modules.

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