Beyond fun - Principles for designing games with purpose
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The document outlines six principles for designing games with purpose: 1. Work with what games do best like engagement, role-playing, and learning through doing. 2. Involve experts as key members of the design team to validate designs and provide ideas. 3. Test designs early and often and consider how players will behave. 4. Simplify complexity by utilizing expert knowledge and understanding the audience. 5. Ensure the mechanics, dynamics, and aesthetics embody the purpose so winning strategies achieve transformational goals. 6. Have ambitious goals to change behaviors, perceptions, and ways of thinking through the games.
Beyond fun - Principles for designing games with purpose
- 12. Preloaded GTA
- 18. Graveyard - Old age
- 19. Papers, please - Social commentary
- 20. Preloaded Fold It - Science research
- 22. Preloaded End Game - Human conflict
- 23. Preloaded Family of Heroes - Rehabilitation
- 25. Nightmare Malaria - Health public awareness
- 26. Minecraft - The sandbox
- 27. Papa & Yo - Alcoholism
- 28. The Walk - Fitness
- 30. That Dragon, Cancer - Auto biographical
- 31. Actual Sunlight - Depression
- 35. Preloaded @raphkoster The best games have something they are ABOUT, and both the theming and the mechanics serve as lenses on that one thing ! 22 Jan 2012 via twitter
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- 39. Preloaded 1.WORKWITH GAMES. ✓ Stick to what games are best at.
- 40. PreloadedBeyond Entertainment - Principles for design games with purpose Whataregamesbestat? - Engagement: - Peaking curiosity - Balancing challenge and reward (ie. Flow) - Role-playing: - Showing different perspectives - Asking difficult questions - Modelling complex systems. ! - Learning through doing: - Showing Content in action - Showing cause and effect - Allowing safe experimentation. - Being authentic. - Cognitively beneficial. - Changing behaviours.
- 41. Preloaded 2.USETHE EXPERTS. ✓ Key part of team. ✓ Let them validate and steer design. ✓ Source of many ideas.
- 44. Preloaded 3.THINKABOUT YOURPLAYER. ✓ Test early and often. ✓ Design for behaviours.
- 46. Preloaded 4.SIMPLIFY COMPLEXITY. ✓ Utilise experts and knowledge of audience. ✓ Make it accessible and relevant.
- 49. Preloaded 5.EMBEDTHE PURPOSE. ✓ Mechanics, dynamics and aesthetics embody purpose. ✓ Winning strategies align with transformational goals.
- 52. Preloaded 6.BE AMBITIOUS. ✓ Take responsibility. ✓ Use them to change behaviours, perceptions and teach new ways of thinking.
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- 56. Preloaded SIX PRINCIPLES FOR DESIGNING GAMES WITH PURPOSE ! 1. WORK WITH GAMES. 2. USE THE EXPERTS. 3. THINK ABOUT YOUR PLAYER. 4. SIMPLIFY COMPLEXITY. 5. EMBED THE PURPOSE. 6. BE AMBITIOUS. ! @preloaded, @philstuart, #counterplay2014,