Role-Play Virtual Environments: Recreational Learning of Software Design

CRC cards and role-play sessions are two techniques widely used in responsibility-driven design and employed as active learning methods to teach object-oriented software design. Based on our experience using them, we propose a game-based approach to take the classroom experience into a virtual environment. We show how the proposed virtual environment must integrate a number of mechanics and we describe one possible interaction metaphor that combines features from first person shooters and sport games, along with its implementation.