• What is ChoiCo?

ChoiCo is an open source web-based educational software developed by the educational technology lab in order to help students and teachers - also those who are not at all familiar with programming - to create their own digital games. It is availiable at http://etl.ppp.uoa.gr/choico/. 

Essentially it is a "game generator" on which everyone can develop their own game either entirely from the beginning or by modifying one of the existing examples.

• What kind of games can I create in ChoiCo? 

The games that are designed by ChoiCo are choice-driven games.This means that the flow of the game is based on player’s decisions with respect to the available choices. In particular, in ChoiCo games the player can choose among the options given to him. Each option corresponds to specific consequences that are numerically presented in the score of the game. 

• How do ChoiCo games differ from other existing ones?

ChoiCo differentiates from the existing games in that here the mechanism that determines the choices, their consequences and the rules of the game is not closed and inaccessible to the user, but becomes an object of thought, discussion, negotiation and modification.

Thus, the ChoiCo software offers two different modes:

i) The Play Mode, where one can play any predefined game

ii) and the Design Mode, where one can design a new game or modify an existing one by using ChoiCo’s special tools.

• English manual

For more information and examples of use you can download the English Manual here.

There are several examples of games on ChoiCo website that you can play or modify.

Also, in «Microworld kit» section, there is an extensive reference to SusX, which is a ChoiCo kit specificly for environmental games. Several information is also posted in the "Artefacts" section, which describes some examples of the games which are available on the ChoiCo website as well.