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El Digital Storytelling (DST) es una estrategia digital que tiene un carácter de multiformato, que permite potenciar habilidades narrativas en los estudiantes de diferentes niveles educativos. Se realizó una investigación con el objetivo central de comprobar la mejora de la competencia narrativa después de una experiencia educativa con el uso de un software Sumac Willaquy (Cuento bonito), que permite aplicar la estrategia de DST. El estudio es de enfoque cuantitativo y de tipo preexperimental. Participaron 70 niños de 5 y 6 años de un centro infantil de Perú distribuidos en tres grupos experimentales bajo dos modalidades de intervención en 2D y 3D. Se adaptó un instrumento sobre competencia narrativa infantil para adecuarlo a las características de los niños de cinco años del contexto peruano. Los resultados indicaron que en la medición del postest, los niños obtuvieron mejores puntuaciones en la competencia narrativa con el uso de la versión 3D más que en la versión 2D. En tal sentido se concluye que el DST es más efectivo en su versión de realidad aumentada., Digital Storytelling (DST) is a digital strategy that has a multiformat character, which allows enhancing narrative skills in students of different educational levels. A research was conducted with the main objective of verifying the improvement of narrative competence after an educational experience with the use of Sumac Willaquy software (Cuento bonito), which allows the application of the DST strategy. The study is quantitative and pre-experimental. Seventy 5-and 6-year-old children from a Peruvian children's center participated, distributed in three experimental groups under two intervention modalities in 2D and 3D. An instrument on children's narrative competence was adapted to suit the characteristics of five-year-old children in the Peruvian context. The results indicated that in the posttest measurement, the children obtained better scores in narrative competence with the use of the 3D version than with the 2D version. In this sense, it is concluded that the DST is more effective in its augmented reality version.

The use of video games has increased exponentially worldwide, mainly among the youth population. The main objective of this article is to evaluate the consumption habits and motivations of engineering students to play video games. To this end, an instrument to measure the use of video games and a scale of motivations were administered to 633 students enrolled in different academic engineering programs at a Peruvian public university. It was found that 91.3% of students play video games, compared to 8.7% who have never played them; it was also found that their use is greater among male students (95%) than among female students (73.4%). Likewise, it was found that these students prefer strategy video games, and that they mostly play them for escape and entertainment, and for socioemotional activation. It is concluded that consumption habits and motivations are related, since the greater the consumption of video games, the greater the motivation is for young people to play them, Peer Reviewed

Video games have become an important element of contemporary life. The need to use them in the field of education has given rise to the appearance of serious video games, which have been specially designed to achieve objectives at different educational levels and generate spaces for educational innovation. The purpose of this work is to investigate the use of serious video games in engineering education. A scoping review was carried out on serious video games that were used or designed for this purpose. The search was done in the Scopus and Web of Science databases between 2016 and 2021. The main results show that there is a strong inclination towards serious simulation video games, and they have a good degree of educational acceptance among engineering students, Peer Reviewed

The COVID-19 pandemic has produced profound changes in higher education, with the replacement of face-to-face instruction with distance or remote education, which involves the management of digital skills by teachers and students. The purpose of this research is to analyze the perception of professors with regard to digital skills and the use of gamified strategies in the teaching-learning process in a virtual context. A questionnaire was sent to 81 professors in different areas of knowledge at a Peruvian public university during the first academic semester of 2020. A strong correlation (r≥.700, p=.01) was found between the use of ICT and gamification as a resource for teaching-learning, and a moderate correlation between the knowledge of digital competences and the possibilities of application as part of the instructional strategies. From the results obtained, it is clear that the participants have a positive perception of digital skills and gamified strategies, regardless of academic degree or area of knowledge. This could provide support for the update of those proposals targeting professors in order to improve their digital skills.

In the last decades, digital games have become an essential part of young people's culture. Consumers on these platforms have increased noticeably, just like the studies focused on them. The objective of this research is to analyze the user generated content in the mobile games ‘Episode: Choose Your Story’ and ‘Choices: Stories You Play’ which have a large number of young users who spread and expand the stories to the most important social media. There were conducted two case studies on the structure of the storytelling of these games and a qualitative methodology was used based on narrative analysis and content analysis. The results indicate that although both games expand the stories on various platforms, the presence of Episode’s writing laboratory produces a more defined behavior in the users compared to Choices, which offers a greater possibility of transforming consumers into prosumers. The huge fan’s community for these games corroborates the importance of the expanded narratives in different media., En las últimas décadas, los juegos digitales se han convertido en parte esencial de la cultura de los adolescentes y jóvenes. Los consumidores de contenidos de estas plataformas se han incrementado notablemente, así como los estudios en torno a ellos. El objetivo de esta investigación consiste en analizar los contenidos generados por los usuarios en los juegos móviles Episode: Choose Your Story y Choices: Stories You Play, los cuales poseen una gran cantidad de usuarios jóvenes que difunden y expanden las historias a través de las redes sociales más importantes. Se realizaron dos estudios de casos sobre la estructura de las narrativas transmedia de estos juegos y se empleó una metodología cualitativa basada en el análisis narrativo y el análisis de contenido. Los resultados indican que, si bien ambos juegos expanden las historias en diversas plataformas, la presencia de un laboratorio de escritura por parte de Episode genera un comportamiento más delimitado en los usuarios en comparación con Choices, el cual brinda una mayor posibilidad de convertir a los consumidores en prosumidores. La enorme comunidad de fans en torno a estos juegos, corrobora la importancia de las narrativas expandidas en distintos medios.

Video games have burst into prominence in today’s society and have revolutionized how we interact with machines. This article deals with emotional design and immersion in story-driven video games. The primary purpose is to discuss emotional design and immersion regarding the central characters of the video game Detroit: Become Human (Quantic Dream, 2018), which are three androids named Markus, Connor, and Kara. The main result shows that the design of this video game enables the player to experience the conflicts posed by the story-driven system, which facilitates emotional immersion beyond the cognitive experience, thus confirming that the video game is a powerful medium for promoting a humanist position., Os videogames vêm ganhando uma notável relevância na sociedade atual e vêm revolucionando a forma como interagimos com as máquinas. Este artigo trata do desenho e da imersão emocional nos videogames de caráter narrativo. O objetivo principal é analisar o desenho e a imersão emocional a respeito dos personagens centrais do videogame Detroit: Become Human (Quantic Dream, 2018), os quais correspondem a três androides chamados “Markus”, “Connor” e “Kara”. O principal resultado mostra que o desenho desse videogame possibilita ao jogador experimentar os conflitos apresentados pelo sistema narrativo, o que, por sua vez, facilita a imersão emocional mais além da experiência cognitiva, confirmando assim que o videogame é apresentado como um meio potente para fomentar um posicionamento humanista., Los videojuegos han adquirido una notoria relevancia en la sociedad actual y han revolucionado la forma como interactuamos con las máquinas. Este artículo se ocupa del diseño y la inmersión emocional en los videojuegos de carácter narrativo. El propósito principal es analizar el diseño y la inmersión emocional respecto a los personajes centrales del videojuego Detroit: Become Human (Quantic Dream, 2018), los cuales corresponden a tres androides llamados Markus, Connor y Kara. El principal resultado muestra que el diseño de este videojuego posibilita al jugador experimentar los conflictos presentados por el sistema narrativo, lo cual a su vez facilita la inmersión emocional más allá de la experiencia cognitiva, confirmando así que el videojuego se presenta como un medio potente para fomentar una postura humanista.

Esta investigación establece relaciones entre distintas producciones videolúdicas y obras literarias representativas del ámbito hispanoamericano. El vínculo entre el mundo de los videojuegos y la literatura es un tema aún poco explorado, pero adquiere relevancia en el actual dominio de las narrativas transmedia de la cultura contemporánea. Se analiza desde una perspectiva ludoficcional, narratológica y sociocultural un conjunto de remediaciones videolúdicas sobre la novela El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (1615) de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; el videojuego Intimate, infinite (Robert Yang, 2014) basado en el cuento “El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan” (1941) de Jorge Luis Borges; y el videojuego Space invaders (Taito, 1978) que inspiró la novela homónima de la escritora chilena Nona Fernández (2013). Se sostiene que la significación de estos artefactos culturales adquiere mayor sentido cuando se establecen los vínculos con otros intertextos y cuando se los examina desde la configuración de los mundos ludoficcionales.

This research establishes relationships between different videoludic productions and representative literary works of the Hispanic-American scope. The link between the world of videogames and literature is still little explored, but this topic acquires relevance in the current domain of transmedia storytelling of contemporary culture. From a ludoficcional perspective a set of videoludic remediations is analyzed about the novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (1615) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; the video game Intimate, infinite (Robert Yang, 2014) based on the short story The Garden of Forking Paths (1941) by Jorge Luis Borges; and the video game Space Invaders (Taito, 1978) that inspired the homonymous novel by the Chilean writer Nona Fernández (2013). It is argued that the significance of these cultural artifacts acquires greater meaning when establishing links with other intertexts y when they are examined from the configuration of the ludofictional worlds., Esta investigación establece relaciones entre distintas producciones videolúdicas y obras literarias representativas del ámbito hispanoamericano. El vínculo entre el mundo de los videojuegos y la literatura es un tema aún poco explorado, pero adquiere relevancia en el actual dominio de las narrativas transmedia de la cultura contemporánea. Se analiza desde una perspectiva ludoficcional, narratológica y sociocultural un conjunto de remediaciones videolúdicas sobre la novela El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (1615) de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; el videojuego Intimate, infinite (Robert Yang, 2014) basado en el cuento “El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan” (1941) de Jorge Luis Borges; y el videojuego Space invaders (Taito, 1978) que inspiró la novela homónima de la escritora chilena Nona Fernández (2013). Se sostiene que la significación de estos artefactos culturales adquiere mayor sentido cuando se establecen los vínculos con otros intertextos y cuando se los examina desde la configuración de los mundos ludoficcionales.