Ludus Magnus - A Serious Game for Learning the Latin Language

• Published in: HCI in Games: Serious and Immersive Games Vol. 12790; pp. 51 - 61
• Main Authors: Plecher, David A., Eichhorn, Christian, Naser, Moritz, Klinker, Gudrun
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2021; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Historical; Latin; Open world; Photorealistic graphics; Serious games
• ISBN: 3030774139; 9783030774134
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77414-1_5

In this paper we want to introduce an open world Serious Game for learning the Latin language. We are using mechanics that are well known from games like Assassin’s Creed or Witcher 3 and combining them with a tense story and the learning content based on chapters of a textbook that is used in conve...