Designing Game Simulations Class
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This document discusses feedback in game and simulation interfaces. It provides examples of different types of feedback like evaluative, interpretive, supportive, probing, and understanding feedback. It emphasizes showing instead of telling in feedback by using examples and dialogue. It also stresses showing consequences in feedback rather than just stating if something is correct or incorrect. The document concludes by assigning students to create the gameplay section of a design document for their game or simulation, which includes structure, progression, balance, and technology details.
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Designing Game Simulations Class
- 1. LTMS 531: Designing Games & Simulations Class 10
- 2. Review • • • • • Gameplay / Levels Mechanics as metaphor Game balance Deconstructing games A deck of lenses
- 4. Flow Theory Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (pronounced chick-sent-me-high-ee)
- 6. 1. Describe the game you played OR the game you found as a review of the interface (chapter 8). 2. What guidelines of a great interface were present and which were not? 3. Were there elements of the interface that were dysfunctional from a usability perspective? How and what would you do to fix them?
- 7. Wireframing
- 9. Interface
- 13. Feedback in Interface “In entertainment games the interface is primarily about the action. In serious games the interface is primarily about the feedback.”
- 38. Writing Feedback Feedback Type Example for a Score-Based Element Technical Demands Evaluative Interpretive You’re score is 120/200 Measure variables You’re score is 120/200 because you failed to respond quickly enough Measure variables and model their relationships Supportive You’re score is 120/200, and you need to improve your response time to challenges Present and format measured data in a form relevant to the learner Probing You’re score is 120/200, because your response times were too low, was this because the user interface was too complex, or due to the game being too hard, or was it something else? User interaction model and support for dynamicism and adaptivity in content through intelligent agency Understanding You’re score is 120/200, because you found the user interface too complex, as a result you responded too slowly to the challenges, you should complete the tutorial on the user interface Link expert knowledge and experience to understanding of root causes of failure “Four-dimensional consideration of feedback in serious games”, http://bit.ly/171Ft2n
- 39. Writing Feedback Show don’t’ Tell • You failed to meet the objectives of the interaction with this customer. • Before you’ve finished your explanation of the story policy, the customer turns abruptly, slams the products she was going to buy on the counter and storms out the door. Before the door store closes, he’s on the phone with his brother telling him about the bad experience he just had at the store.
- 40. Writing Feedback Use Dialogue • The SME reacts negatively to your suggestion. • “I’m not sure why you think you know more about xyz than I do. I have over 20 years of experience in this industry and I am not going to waste my time being lectured at by someone who is a junior instructional designer! What is your boss’s extension?”
- 41. Writing Feedback Show Consequences • Incorrect, a better choice would be to establish a perimeter before proceeding into the secure area.” • BLAM! You just triggered a secondary device killing yourself and several bystanders. Julie Dirksen, Storytelling: Narrative Techniques for Learning, http://bit.ly/1bDiN8F
- 44. LTMS 531: Designing Games & Simulations 1. Create the Gameplay Section of the Design Document: Game Structure, Game Progression, Game Balance, Game Technology & Functionality (including tracking & scoring) – Due on or before Nov. 20