FireEscape: a Gamified Coordinative Aproach to Multiplayer Fire-Safety Training

Emergency trainings simulated in alternative environments are fundamentally dependent on user engagement and may be addressed as crucial validation scenarios for proposing new approaches to learning designs. Developing an interactive engaging experience while building a know-how becomes a challenging demand to be addressed in current training setups. A fire-safety training has been recreated as a gamified learning experience, where coordinative multiplayer gameplay elements have been integrated in 3D fire emergency simulation. 3C implications (collaboration, cooperation, coordination) have been analyzed for modeling multiuser navigation and a coordinative approach has been selected for accomplishing the goal-oriented mission of successful evacuation in a fire-based emergency scenario. Game-based analytics have been collected and analyzed in an experimental pre-test, addressed to 1^st year students enrolled in the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, where out of a total number of 196 students, 22 participants actively ran the simulation as either belonging to the control or experimental group.