Just Press Play:A gaming layer

for undergraduate education

Liz LawleyRIT School of Interactive Games & Media

lawley.rit.edu

It’s the autonomy, stupid.

“My point is that the ‘fun’, the pleasure of these elements does not come from some extrinsic reward value of those elements, but chiefly from the experience of competence they give rise to.”

Sebastian Deterding

What behaviors did we want to reward and encourage?

What feelings of competence could we engender?

What did we want our students to remember and

reflect on?

So, what happened?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSqw5OHLj8I

“On a side note, despite website difficulties, people are playing. The buzz is tremendously positive. Keith Whittington has already had several lovely interactions as people want his card. I have given out around 40 already of Weezes Wobble. People are breaking out in dance around me. I never want this to stop.”

I walked in the next morning and several of the students (including Somara) were waiting outside the room to hear my reaction, which was my turning around and yelling "SOMARA!!!"  Definitely a good time :)