Exabis Games

Activities ::: mod_exagames
Maintained by Andreas Riepl
The goal of this activity is to bring the aspect of game-based-learning into Moodle-courses. The way the acitivity works is that two of our exagames are based upon quizzes given to students within a Moodle course (braingame and exaclick), one activity links games created with the OpenSource-platform gamelabs.at directly into Moodle courses. See readme.txt for further instructions.
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Exabis games for Moodle

The goal of this activity is to bring the aspect of game-based-learning into Moodle-courses. Yes, game-based-learning is much more than using some funny animations and yes we have re-written everything for HTML5!

The way the acitivity works is that two of  our exagames are based upon quizzes given to students within a Moodle-course. This way exagames can be seen as another fun-way to acquire knowledge being an "enhancement" of quizzes.

Braingame
We started out with the “braingame” which basically reads out questions from quizzes. During the answering of questions there is a small animation (brain growing for given correct answers). The ultimate goal is to catapult the scientist into outer space – otherwise he drops into the ocean.

Exaclick
This year we have enhanced the activity with another game called exaclick. The principles were taken from an old television-show where tiles would cover up a whole picture and then would be uncovered one by one.  In our version this is also combined with Moodle-quizzes but in addition questions can be enhanced with a video or picture that can be covered with tiles. These questions can be categorized with difficulty-levels – the enhancement is done with an integrated Flash-based editor.

Regarding gameplay: after one recognizes the picture or video the stop-button is pressed and a question (it could be related to the picture) is then displayed which should be answered correctly. If the question answered incorrectly one heart is lost, three lost hearts equals to “game over”.
Bonus points (for a game-highscore) are given for the factor speed (the sooner the picture is recognized the more bonus-points are gained).

For exaclick to work you need to configure the questions that you have added to a test that the game is based upon.

1.    Upload some pictures and/or videos to a folder within your Moodle-course
2.    Create a test based upon a question bank
3.    Create a game using the activity “exabis games” and choosing “exaclick” from the pulldown-menu
4.    Configure your question in the tab “configure question”. Here you can choose a question. By clicking on the question a flash-based editor is opened. Insert a link to a picture or video that was previously uploaded.
5.    Save the question
6.    Continue configuring questions on different difficulty-levels.
7.    Have your students play the game – Highscores are displayed within the exabis games-activity.

Gamelabs.at
This is a mere embedding of a platform we have started to develop two years back. Here students can create individual games based upon the adventure-principle. Take a look at the game “Hallo Welt” to get a basic idea. The platform was financed by the Federal Austrian Ministry of Education and is free to use for everyone.

Register a new user and try out gamelabs to experiment.

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  • Al
    Mon, 8 Aug 2022, 4:31 AM
    Thank you again, is there any news on the bug fix to all this brilliant extension to work? I am so sorry to bother you but the students love it so much.
  • Andreas Riepl
    Thu, 18 Aug 2022, 12:39 AM
    Hello Al, we tried the version - it should run with Moodle 4.x - can you please elaborate on your version and the problems, you can also mail us directly, if needed, regards Andreas
  • Al
    Sun, 25 Sept 2022, 7:07 PM
    yes, that fine, if you give me your email. I have tried on here but it says you are not accepting messages. I can then send you screenshots etc.
  • Andreas Riepl
    Sun, 25 Sept 2022, 11:31 PM
    Hello Al, sure: ariepl@gtn-solutions.com - try our experimental branch first: https://github.com/gtn/exagames/tree/experimental - regards, Andreas
  • Bakiso Malkowa
    Tue, 31 Jan 2023, 3:27 PM
    I Think it is a old version and not working. Kindly updated it
  • Younes Orli-Idrissi
    Thu, 4 May 2023, 3:02 PM
    Hi everyone. First off, I really love this plug-in and the inclusion of gamification. Thank you. But, does someone else also have some issue with the font sizes (that the text sometimes runs a bit over the game-boarder itself)? Is there any possibilities to edit the font size?

    Thank you. Best Younes
  • Andreas Riepl
    Tue, 9 May 2023, 3:18 PM
    Hello Younes, which Moodle-version are you using? Regards, Andreas
  • apps andgames
    Mon, 18 Dec 2023, 12:17 AM
    Hi everyone. First off, I really love this plug-in and the inclusion of gamification. Thank you. But, does someone else also have some issue with the font sizes (that the text sometimes runs a bit over the game-boarder itself). Is there any possibilities to edit the font size..
  • Andreas Riepl
    Thu, 28 Dec 2023, 5:39 PM
    Hello, we will take a look at it, thanks!
  • Source: https://surahalmulk.net/
    Thu, 25 July 2024, 3:38 PM
    Thank you
  • Source: https://surahalmulk.net/
    Tue, 6 Aug 2024, 6:17 PM
    Thank you for sharing this extension. Surah Mulk
  • Al
    Fri, 25 Oct 2024, 11:07 PM
    Sorry to bother you, I use your Exabis games a lot on my site, the kids love it. I upgraded to Moodle 4.5 and now get an error when I try to run it.  The Error says:
    Undefined Constant "html" in a pink box.  Please can you help.
    Sorry to bother you, but our kids love it, we have a week off but then we are back to it.
    Please can you fix it.
  • Andreas Riepl
    Mon, 28 Oct 2024, 3:03 PM
    Hello Al, we will take a look at it and fix it, regards, Andreas
  • Al
    Tue, 29 Oct 2024, 12:17 AM
    Thank you:
    Another error is: Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: Deprecation: get_context_instance has been deprecated since 2.2. Use \core\context::instance instead. See MDL-34472 for more information.

    More information about this error
  • Andreas Riepl
    Tue, 29 Oct 2024, 3:05 PM
    We will take a look at it. Before publishing to moodle.org we have the corrections available in our experimental-branch: https://github.com/gtn/exagames/tree/experimental
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