In this workshop, veteran game designer Nicholas Fortugno introduces the core idea of serious game design: using game mechanics and play to communicate, teach, or persuade. The workshop gives a definition of games that provides tools to think about the underlying systems that make them work, and then shows how those systems can be constructed to lead to specific play patterns. Examples are shown from successful serious games of the relationship between the game mechanics and the serious content. Participants then take part in a hands-on analog game design exercise to put these lessons to work by making a prototypes of a game for a pre-selected issue. The goal of the workshop is to give participants direct experience thinking in game design terms and trying to apply game design in an instrumental way. No previous game design experience required.PARTICIPANTS:Nick Fortugno, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Playmatics
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1. Game Design WorkshopNicholas Fortugno Playmatics
2. Game Design Basics 3. Game Design Basics Games have goals
that the player tries toreach in order to win. 4. Game Design
Basics Games have goals that the player tries toreach in order to
win. A games rules are constraints on the playersability to reach
the goal. 5. Game Design Basics Games have goals that the player
tries toreach in order to win. A games rules are constraints on the
playersability to reach the goal. The combination of goals and
rules forms a setof incentives that guide player choices
andbehavior. 6. nti 7. Game Design Basics Games have goals that the
player tries toreach in order to win. A games rules are constraints
on the playersability to reach the goal. The combination of goals
and rules forms a setof incentives that guide player choices
andbehavior. This is what creates fun and the otheremotions and
messages games produce. 8. Using Games for Serious Purposes 9.
Using Games for Serious Purposes The key to using a game for a
message orlesson is to embody the message in the play. 10. Using
Games for Serious Purposes The key to using a game for a message
orlesson is to embody the message in the play. The player has to
engage with the message byplaying, meaning through the action
ofmaking choices in the game system. 11. Examples of Embodied Play
12. Examples of Embodied Play Games as modeling 13. Examples of
Embodied PlayHD Lab, Playmatics 14. Examples of Embodied PlayThe
Redistricting Game, USC Game Innovation Lab 15. Examples of
Embodied Play Games as modeling Games as simulation 16. Examples of
Embodied PlayPeacemaker, Impact Games 17. Examples of Embodied Play
Ayiti: The Cost of Life, gameLab, Global Kids 18. Examples of
Embodied PlayHustlin Healthcare, Clay Ewing 19. Examples of
Embodied Play Games as modeling Games as simulation Games as
abstract representation 20. Examples of Embodied Play Humans vs.
Mosquitos, Mohini Dutta, Ben Norskov, Lien Tran, and Eulani Labay
21. Examples of Embodied Play Games as modeling Games as simulation
Games as abstract representation Gamification of the method of
change 22. Examples of Embodied PlayCommons: The Game, Suzanne
Kirkpatrick, Nien Lam,Jamie Lin 23. Workshop Exercise Create a
prototype A very crude, very broken, first pass at a game The goal
is to have the core interactivity ofthe game (e.g. the players
choice) embodythe lesson or system you want the players tolearn.
24. [email protected] | Innovation | Engagement
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