Design Principles for Serious Games Authoring Tool

Serious game development involves a multidisciplinary team of teachers and computer scientists. But the difference in competencies between members is recurring difficulty this collaboration. Authoring tools, which provide interfaces adapted to users' competencies, are promising solutions overcome difficulty. However, existing authoring tools either limited their functionalities (not powerful) or too complex for non-computer scientists usable). A comprehensive set design principles address limitation does not yet exist. The objective research was define powerful usable tools. To achieve objective, we first defined principles. We then developed an tool corresponding these Finally, carried out test uses that through twelve serious games. Results show enabled wide variety games (powerful) by teams with heterogeneous skills (usable). Design integrate extend previous works. They allow dilemma power usability This could unlock new possibilities collaborative approaches developments.