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What Games SayBret Staudt Willet
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What is a game?
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What is a game?
Basic elements of any game:
• objectives
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What is a game?
Basic elements of any game:
• objectives
• environmental constraints
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What is a game?
Basic elements of any game:
• objectives
• environmental constraints
• formal constraints
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What is a video game?
Basic elements of any VIDEO game:
• objectives
• environmental constraints
• formal constraints
• machine-based arbitration
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What is a video game?
Basic elements of any VIDEO game:
• objectives
• environmental constraints
• formal constraints
• machine-based arbitration
The rest is just style!
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Gamer Personality TypesRichard Bartle, Designing Virtual Worlds
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Gamer Personality Types
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What is a video game?
A video game is a medium of expression.
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What is a video game?
A video game is a medium of expression.
• Basic elements: objectives, environmental constraints, formal constraints, machine-based arbitration.
• Gamer Personalities: different ways to act and interact with it.
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What is a video game?
A video game is a medium of expression.
• Basic elements: objectives, environmental constraints, formal constraints, machine-based arbitration.
• Gamer Personalities: different ways to act and interact with it.
Communicating something—but what? And how?
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What is a video game?
A video game is a medium of expression.
• Basic elements: objectives, environmental constraints, formal constraints, machine-based arbitration.
• Gamer Personalities: different ways to act and interact with it.
Communicating something—but what? And how?
Wall Street Journal looks at Serious Games
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WHAT Games Communicate
• Skill development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHtjRilQ8xY
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WHAT Games Communicate
• New knowledge or understanding
http://www.gameslearningsociety.org/project_virulent.php
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WHAT Games Communicate
• Changing real world beliefs:o alcoholism and child abuse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAkUDP5ZqYY
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WHAT Games Communicate
• Changing real world beliefs:o sweatshops
http://www.playsweatshop.com/
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WHAT Games Communicate
• Changing real world beliefs:o international conflicts
http://www.peacemakergame.com/video.php?v=gameplay
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WHAT Games Communicate
• Changing real world beliefs:o environmental sustainability
http://artworksforchange.org/bioharmonious/webplayer.html
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WHAT Games Communicate
• Changing real world realitieso empower women around the world
https ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Ahpocmjs0
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WHAT Games Communicate
• Changing real world realitieso help kids fight cancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xewFHfquK54
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HOW Games Communicate
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HOW Games Communicate
• Not necessarily FUN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3o0HFXPfco
Ian Bogost on designing fun: http://vimeo.com/74943170
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HOW Games Communicate
• Not necessarily even ENGAGING
http://www.depressionquest.com/dqfinal.html#
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HOW Games Communicate
• BUT, not-fun, not-engaging games can still be very good games
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HOW Games Communicate
• BUT, not-fun, not-engaging games can still be very good games
• How can that be?
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HOW Games Communicate
• Two ideas from Ian Bogost:
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HOW Games Communicate
• Two ideas from Ian Bogost:o Procedural Rhetoric
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HOW Games Communicate
• Two ideas from Ian Bogost:o Procedural Rhetorico Deliberation
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HOW Games Communicate
• Procedural Rhetorico Rhetoric = persuasive expressiono Procedures = rule-based representations and
interactions
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HOW Games Communicate
• Procedural Rhetoric in BioHarmonious
http://artworksforchange.org/bioharmonious/webplayer.html
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HOW Games Communicate
• Procedural Rhetoric in Darfur is Dying
http://www.darfurisdying.com/
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HOW Games Communicate
• Deliberationo Not incentives or reinforcement
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HOW Games Communicate
• Deliberationo Persuade, no coerce—through meaningful
choice
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HOW Games Communicate
• Deliberation in Data Dealer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2eCAgQ1DTo
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HOW Games Communicate
• Deliberation in Cow Clicker
http://www.bogost.com/games/cow_clicker.shtml
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Go Make Serious Games
https://www.scirra.com/construct2
http://unity3d.com/
http://gamestarmechanic.com/
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Go Make Serious Gameshttp://gel.msu.edu/winn/Winn_DPE_chapter_final.pdf
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Go Study Serious Gameshttp://seriousgames.msu.edu/
3 online courses for Master’s Certificate:
• Foundations of Serious Games
• Theories of Games and Interaction for Design
• Understanding Users
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Questions? [email protected]
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References
Bogost, I. (2010). Persuasive Games: The expressive power of videogames. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Ferrara, J. (2012). Playful Design: Creating game experiences in everyday interfaces. Brooklyn, NY: Rosenfeld Media.