Promoting Competences for the Digital World by an Educational Escape Room

Based on the game principle of Escape Rooms, a digital serious game was designed and developed. In this game, individual competences of the strategy “Education in the Digital World” presented by the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the federal states in the Federal Republic of Germany (KMK) are promoted in a playful way and related contents are conveyed. Within a 2D world, various interactive game elements, tasks and puzzles were realised in a digital Educational Escape Room. Tests and a final evaluation showed that this increased motivation and that the pupils were able to solve the tasks with the necessary skills.