Henrike Lode's presentation from CounterPlay '14.

1. Edutainment is dead.
Long live educational games!
Counterplay Conference 2014

2. WHO AM I?

4. Machineers

5. Teacher for
Game Development

6. Executive Board member

7. Nordic Game Jam

8. WHY AM I HERE?

9. Edutainment is DEAD

11. Edutainment

12. Education
+
Entertainment
=
Edutainment

13. Gamification

14. Ramification?

15. Gamification

16. Jane McGonigal

17. SuperBetter

18. Media Buzzzzzzzzz

22. I could go on...

23. What‘s the problem?

24. chocolate covered broccoli

25. FAIL

26. „When you play video games,
you solve problems that you
wouldn‘t have if you didn‘t play.“
Somebody Smart

28. Educational games "
can do that too

32. Paper, Please

34. What‘s their secret?

35. Edutainment
Gamification
Learning game
Educational game

36. Good GAME
>
Game for GOOD

37. Gabriel Newell (Valve)
„I hate that a lot of people use the
fact that they are targetting the
educational market as an excuse for
not working as hard as the people
who are trying to build commercial
software.“

38. They don‘t make you
feel like an idiot.

39. Embrace your inner GEEK

40. FREEDOM
Set your own goals,
collaborate, compete, explore

41. Playfulness

42. Think outside the box

43. Teach RELEVANT skills

44. Making games is hard.
Making educational games is harder.

45. Question your motivation
Why use/make learning games?

46. User-Centered Design
This is not about you.

47. Don‘t panic

48. Thank you.

49. Contact me!
Email:
riker@machineers.com
Twitter:
@Machineers
Phone:
+45 50 20 84 94
www.machineers.com