DATA - <b>Abzu, Alba e Planet Zoo: systematic review and formal analysis on eco game mechanics</b>

<b>Background:</b> Many studies aim to understand the impacts of educational games on their players and seek to establish design principles that create good experiences that teach in playful ways. However, there are digital games that do not have educational objectives as their main premises and, even so, can provide experiences in which players learn incidentally through the proposed mechanics and narratives. <b>Planet Zoo, Alba: A Wildlife Adventure and Abzû</b> are games in which the <b>preservation of fauna and flora</b> has a central narrative and is part of the main mechanics.<b>Objective:</b> Considering this, the present study has two main objectives. The first is to conduct a <b>formal gameplay analysis</b> to further investigate how some of the game design decisions of such games can provide educational experiences. The second objective is to conduct a <b>systematic review</b> using the PRISMA protocol to scope interventional studies using the games to promote ecological education. This review was conducted in ERIC, PsycINFO, Google Scholar and Periódicos CAPES.<b>Results: </b>After the inclusion criteria were applied to the screening stage, 49 articles of 316 were selected. Seven duplicates were found and excluded. Of the 42 materials screened with the application of the exclusion criteria, <b>only 4 contained educational intervention</b> methods and <b>none of them used one of the three games analyzed</b> in this study. Nonetheless, the three game titles contain interesting mechanics and have educational potential.<b>Conclusion:</b> The games analyzed could be used in <b>intervention research</b> with quantitative and qualitative approaches. It is important that these type og games continue to be investigated by game designers and ecology and biology specialists to determine the reliability of the titles establishing the limits between science and creative narrative freedom.

<b>研究背景：</b> 诸多研究旨在探析教育游戏对玩家的影响，并致力于提炼可打造寓教于乐优质体验的设计准则。然而，部分数字游戏并未将教育目标作为核心前提，但仍可通过其设定的机制与叙事，让玩家在潜移默化中习得知识。《动物园之星》（Planet Zoo）、《阿尔芭：野生动物冒险》（Alba: A Wildlife Adventure）与《ABZÛ》这三款游戏均以动植物保护为核心叙事内容，且将其融入核心游戏机制之中。<b>研究目标：</b> 基于上述背景，本研究主要包含两项核心目标。其一，开展正式游戏玩法分析（formal gameplay analysis），深入探究此类游戏的部分设计决策如何打造教育体验。其二，遵循PRISMA指南开展系统综述（systematic review），梳理以该三款游戏开展生态教育干预研究的相关文献。本次综述的文献检索范围涵盖ERIC、PsycINFO、Google Scholar与Periódicos CAPES数据库。<b>研究结果：</b> 在筛查阶段应用纳入标准后，从316篇文献中筛选出49篇。期间共发现并剔除7篇重复文献。在应用排除标准完成筛查后的42份文献中，仅4篇涉及教育干预方法，且无一使用本研究分析的三款游戏中的任意一款。尽管如此，该三款游戏仍具备颇具新意的机制与可观的教育潜力。<b>研究结论：</b> 本研究分析的三款游戏可应用于兼具定量与定性研究方法的干预研究当中。游戏设计师、生态学与生物学专家可继续对此类游戏展开研究，以明确该类游戏的可靠性，并厘清科学严谨性与创作叙事自由度之间的边界，这一点至关重要。

搜集汇总

背景与挑战

背景概述

该数据集包含对三款生态主题游戏《Planet Zoo》、《Alba: A Wildlife Adventure》和《Abzû》的系统综述和正式分析，旨在评估其游戏机制的教育潜力。研究通过PRISMA协议筛选了相关文献，发现尽管这些游戏具有教育价值，但现有干预研究未使用它们。数据集支持进一步探讨游戏在生态教育中的应用，并鼓励跨学科合作以验证科学性与叙事自由之间的平衡。