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Using Game Design Thinking
to Engage Students
Jesse Schell
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Anyone who makes a
distinction between
entertainment and
education doesn't know
the first thing about either.
–Marshall McLuhan
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Rewards can Backfire
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Intrinsic / Extrinsic Motivation
“Hafta” “Wanna”
Slavery Freedom
Duty Fun
Work Play
Efficiency Pleasure
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Low Engagement
Medium Engagement
High Engagement
A Good Engagement Curve
Interest
Time
A Bad Engagement Curve
Interest
Time
5: Story
1: Sensory
4: Challenge 7: Creative
3: Exploration
6: Social
2: Emotional
The Seven Types of Engagement
Engagement outline
1. Sensory
1. Theme park example
2. What senses can you engage?
Sight? Sound? Touch? Smell?
Taste? Hot? Cold? Wet? Dry?
2. Emotion
1. Plutchik’s Wheel
2. Examples of emotion in games
3. Exploration
1. Game map
2. Piaget Quote
3. Curiosity Loop
4. Feynman story
4. Challenge
1. Challenges are about you. Can
YOU do it? I value a challenge to
the extent it affects my self
worth
2. Flow channel
3. Challenges must be
customized
1: Sensory Engagement
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
2: Emotional Engagement
Plutchik’s
Wheel of
Emotions
3: Exploration
Engagement
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
I have no special
talents, I am only
passionately curious.
–Albert Einstein
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Testing
DISEQUILIBRATION
Fear Apathy
Curiosity
Curiosity
Insight
Wonder
The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity.
4: Challenge
Engagement
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow Channel
Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow Channel
Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow Channel
Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow Channel
5: Story
Engagement
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
6: Social Engagement
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
7: Creative
Engagement
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
5: Story
1: Sensory
4: Challenge 7: Creative
3: Exploration
6: Social
2: Emotional
The Seven Types of Engagement
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
Using Game Design Thinking to Engage Students.pdf
5: Story
1: Sensory
4: Challenge 7: Creative
3: Exploration
6: Social
2: Emotional
The Seven Types of Engagement
I can think of nothing that
an audience won’t
understand. The only
problem is to interest them;
once they are interested,
they understand anything
in the world. –Orson Welles
5: Story
1: Sensory
4: Challenge 7: Creative
3: Exploration
6: Social
2: Emotional
The Seven Types of Engagement

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