Digital Escape Room for computer network mechanic students

Abstract

Escape room education represents a new type of education, which makes it possible to increase the cognitive, behavioral, and affective skills of students in an engaging way. However, there are no generic software tools to create a digital educational escape room environment that allows for versatile digital escape room design. This lack of support prevents widespread use and adoption of these activities in teaching. This article presents the use of the GDevelop environment to create a digital educational escape room for third-year students in the field of computer network mechanic at a vocational high school. GDevelop, a free cross-platform open source game development software, has proven to be a suitable tool for creating digital educational escape rooms with the demands of the variety of tasks encountered in a digital escape room.