Richard Vass and Dan Dellenbach (Solutions Strategies)

The Hero’s Journey

Exploring Often Overlooked Elements in

Learning Games

Richard Vass

What is the Research Telling Us?

8 seconds The amount of time you have to grab learners’

attention

Five minutes The amount of time you can hold it

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Good Game Elements

Rules, rules, rules. Good game design has rules

Voluntary activity, with an element of

choice

A sense of engagement, entertainment,

amusement, and fun

Some kind of goal of challenge

Good Game Elements

Tell a compelling story

Create conflict

Don’t underestimate the importance of

aesthetics

Strike a balance between challenging

and difficult

Give players control• Forbes Magazine: Five Tips for Using Games to Train Your Employees, Stephen Baer,

The Game Agency, June 2017

Call to Adventure

Your Ordinary World:

Crossing the Threshold

Crossing the Threshold

Crossing the Threshold

Crossing the Threshold

Crossing the Threshold

Crossing the Threshold

Approach

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Special World – Financial Literacy

Design a casual game to educate, engage and inspire

players about fiscal responsibility

“Your Life” is a simulation game designed to help users

effectively balance wealth, health and happiness and

successfully retire while coping with all life’s biggest

events and daily surprises

The game challenges players to make smart choices

regarding housing, employment, leisure activities,

relationships and more

Every choice affects the game the player's goal is to

ultimately retire with a truly balanced life

O B J E C T I V E

S O L U T I O N

On the Road Back / ResurrectionJUMP

SCENARIOS

RECALL

MAZE

SCRAMBLE

GRID

MATCHTRIVIA

Return with Elixir

Takeaway:• The ELBC “Brothers” Challenge• Reputation as a true professional

• Somebody who engages learners• Challenges learners• Not just an ‘order taker’

• WE CAN ALL CHANGE!

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