Edutainment is dead.Long live educational games!

Counterplay Conference 2014

WHO AM I?

Machineers

Teacher for Game Development

Executive Board member

Nordic Game Jam

WHY AM I HERE?

Edutainment is DEAD

Edutainment

Education+

Entertainment=

Edutainment

Gamification

Ramification?

Gamification

Jane McGonigal

SuperBetter

Media Buzzzzzzzzz

I could go on...

What‘s the problem?

chocolate covered broccoli

FAIL

„When you play video games, you solve problems that you wouldn‘t have if you didn‘t play.“

Somebody Smart

Educational games "can do that too

Paper, Please

What‘s their secret?

EdutainmentGamification

Learning gameEducational game

Good GAME >

Game for GOOD

Gabriel Newell (Valve)

„I hate that a lot of people use the fact that they are targetting the educational market as an excuse for not working as hard as the people who are trying to build commercial software.“

They don‘t make you feel like an idiot.

Embrace your inner GEEK

FREEDOM

Set your own goals, collaborate, compete, explore

Playfulness

Think outside the box

Teach RELEVANT skills

Making games is hard. Making educational games is harder.

Question your motivation

Why use/make learning games?

User-Centered Design

This is not about you.

Don‘t panic

Thank you.

Contact me!

Email: riker@machineers.com Twitter: @Machineers Phone: +45 50 20 84 94

www.machineers.com