EDUCATIONAL GAMES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE GENERATIONS

Videogames are currently on of the main software - consumed by the users of current technologies, the age range is very wide from kids to older adults. In the current market of videogames there is a great variety of categories for each and every taste, even so there is a category that has been lagging behind, and that is the one of educational games, this is a result of the low acceptance of this type of software because it's poor implementation for specific sectors. Using the agile methodology for developing software (SCRUM) which participation, promote teamwork, improve self-esteem, develops psychomotor skills, as imagination and logic." [2] Currently in a large part of the world we can observe that videogames are the number one leisure activity. These are available in a large variety of platforms some specialized for them like consoles, others have varied goals also we can find games developed for smartphones or traditional computers. Every day more and more people are spending their free time playing videogames. Only in Mexico, the videogame market registered an income of more than 1,000 million dollars last year, positioning it in the 12th place worldwide and 1st in Latin America, ahead of Brazil by more than 90 million dollars. [1] Mexico having a large number of people interested in videogames is a great place to take advantage of educational games: "Using videogames on education has it's advantages, it helps retention, motivates students to achieve goals, incentives helps to manage the software development processes and quantifying surveys to specific sectors of gaming that make use of this type of mobile software, with this we were able to develop the game Learn and Have Fun! which contains effective activities with the adequate characteristics for this specific group.