Modern Serious Board Games: modding games to teach and train civil engineering students

Board games were reinvented, and the new designs are creating growing interest in consumers. The new games provide alternative options to create serious games and may also inspire gamification designs, suited for engineering education and training. This paper describes the process of testing three modern board games: Steam, Codenames and Just One. The games were adapted to address the curricula of two civil engineering lectures, serving as a first test in order to identify the characteristics of modern board games and how they can be transformed into serious games.