Evaluation of Educational Games Usage Satisfaction

Educational games are increasingly being used recently, in order to support and enrich learning experience. The main goal of this study is to evaluate the satisfaction of using of 9 games in learning some topics, such as Languages and Programming. The character of this research is exploratory, with a quantitative approach, with data collection defined by a questionnaire. The participants of this study are all Computer Science and Software Engineering students at the University of Brasília, with a total of 56 respondents. From the results found, what stood out was the finding that educational games related to teaching languages are the best known, and the best evaluated, regarding effectiveness and satisfaction, noticing Duolingo as the leading evaluated app. Regarding games of programming, the best rated was Swift Playgrounds, and Habitica, the habits game, received a medium rating.