Teaching Game Design to Teach Interaction Design
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This document discusses how teaching game design can be used to teach interaction design. It provides examples of exercises used in classes that have students create simple paper prototype games to explore mechanics like movement, conflict, and feedback. The document argues that game design and interaction design require many of the same skills, including considering affordances, direct manipulation, conceptual models, information architecture, iteration and playtesting. Teaching game design helps students explore difficult topics and stretch their thinking in new directions. Core concepts from game design like mechanics, dynamics and aesthetics can also be applied to interaction design.
Teaching Game Design to Teach Interaction Design
- 1. Teaching Game Design to Teach Interaction Design Let’s Play @cwodtke | cwodtke@eleganthack.com www.eleganthack.com CHRISTINA WODTKE
- 2. I teach at CCA I use game design to teach Interaction design
- 3. You may think Game design is all about fancy equipment and softare
- 4. Let’s make a game Exercise via Brenda Romero
- 5. Draw a path
- 6. Create a way to move • Dice roll • Answer a trivia question • Everyone moves • Person behind moves • Roshambo • Card draw • Pass, but gain currency • Physical skill
- 7. Design Conflict • Speed people up • Slow people down • Extra turn • Lose a turn • Swap places • Block
- 8. Add anything you need to make it playable 3 minutes
- 9. Playtest
- 10. You won! You made a game. Was that so hard? Was it fun?
- 11. Sure I worked at Zynga… but I worked on platform! I was nerveous teaching game design too…
- 12. It all started with Story Time Studio 1: Story that is….
- 14. Students made pop-up books, exploring how to use interaction for emotional effect…
- 15. Students made Interactive Fiction, exploring dystopias
- 16. IF software will teach you about interaction flows
- 17. And IF teaches you how to consider story in space over time
- 18. Interaction Design and Game Design are Fraternal twins First video game 1958
- 19. Shared Knowledge You need the same skills for both
- 20. AFFORDANCES (signifiers) Things that look pushable, get pushed. Things that look pullable, get pulled.
- 21. AFFORDANCES Buttons that look pushable, get pushed
- 22. But check out these affordances
- 23. Feedback
- 25. Alphabear won’t embarrass me socially
- 27. Harry Potter Years 1-4 on Ipad Direct Manipulation Harry Potter Years 5-7 on Ipad Virtual Controller
- 28. Concept Models to Communicate to team
- 29. Architecture concept model Architecture concept model
- 30. How areas of site interlock Via Andrew Hinton @inkblurt Consider conceptual models over sitemaps
- 31. Stone Librande’s One Page Designs are concept models (Spore)
- 34. The IA of Minecraft
- 35. The IA of Kingdom Rush
- 36. Same but better Playtesting, Prototyping, and RITE done Right
- 37. A game is unknowable until it is played
- 38. Board games are HUGE!
- 41. More iteration
- 42. Different & New Ideas Look to Game Design to stretch us in new directions and explore difficult topics
- 45. CAMP Context, Architecture, Mechanics, Poetics
- 46. Luck and skill
- 49. continuums
- 50. Art?
- 54. Culture
- 57. Ecology
- 58. Craft
- 59. Empathy
- 60. You learn when you care
- 61. They will save the world
- 62. And have fun doing it
- 63. Required Reading for Educators
Editor's Notes
- #7: Compare the keyboard buttons you can feel and push, to the hyper-flat keyboad. What is nicer to use? Is the ipad keyboard enough?
- #9: Compare the keyboard buttons you can feel and push, to the hyper-flat keyboad. What is nicer to use? Is the ipad keyboard enough?
- #11: On twitter, when you post you get feedback so you know your tweet went out. on Facebook, they show the link preview as soon as you add it, so you know all is workign (and can preview0 Your new status is always posted on top, to let you know its there. Discuss: do you need a message? Is it enough it always shows? What if technology doesn’t allow it to be on top (more recent, etc) Should you force it there to make sure user knows its posted?