Jacqueline Urick discusses using gaming and gamification to develop skills for future careers. She argues that if future careers will require technical skills and technology changes rapidly, individuals need to develop attributes like intelligence, wisdom, strength and constitution, as well as skills like input, ideation and strategy. She proposes a system of "questing" by taking classes, building things, reading and more to level up these attributes and skills in an engaging game-like framework. The goal is to develop into an "Awesome You" ready for the future of work.

1. Gaming for Good
Jacqueline Urick – Tech it Out!
4.30.2011

2. About Jacque
• Co-founder & CEO SieEnt, LLC
• Managing Director, Girls in Tech Minneapolis / St. Paul
• Board Member, IGDA Twin Cities

3. About Jacque
• Co-founder & CEO SieEnt, LLC
• Managing Director, Girls in Tech Minneapolis / St. Paul
• Board Member, IGDA Twin Cities

5. Technology is the usage and
knowledge of tools, techniques,
crafts, systems or methods of
organization in order to solve a
problem or serve some purpose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology

6. PROTIP:
“What we observe is not nature
itself,
but nature exposed to our
method of questioning.”
– Werner Heisenberg

7. Art Science

8. PROTIP:
ALL THE
COOL STUFF
HAPPENS HERE

9. VIDEOGAMES

10. PROTIP:
“The opposite
of play isn't work,
it's depression.”
- Jane McGonigal

11. play and
work
should go hand in hand.
Image credit: http://www.ezwebrus.com/wallpapers/animal/holding_hands.jpg

12. Why not turn
everything
into a game?

13. Why not turn
everything
into a game?

14. So How Are We Going to Do This?

15. IF all future careers are tech skills dependent,
AND technology changes rapidly,
THEN what base attributes and skills
are you going to need?

16. PROTIP:
“We are what we pretend to be, so we
must be careful about what we pretend
to be.”
- Kurt Vonnegut
Mother Night, 1961

17. Ideate Awesome You
Attribute Skill
Intelligence Input
Wisdom Ideation
Strength Strategy
Dexterity Maximizer
Constitution Self-Assurance
Level 1

20. PROTIP:
Recruit Awesome Allies

21. Quest!!
• Take a class • Build something
• Sketch your • Put on a show
environment • Watch a live
• Read an article performance
• Read a book • Write a story
• Listen to music • Play a game
• Etc…

22. PROTIP:
Questing
is doing things with
PURPOSE.

23. Level Up!
• Reflect on failure • Revisit your skills and
(failure isn’t bad!) attributes
• Improve with each cycle • Leave your comfort
zone on your next set of
quests

24. Character
Creation
Tools
Level Repeat Until
Recruit
Up! “Max Level”
Quest
Max Level

25. Result: Awesome You
Level 11ty Billion Mass Effect 2 is property of Electronic Arts

26. PROTIP:
“If you want to be a game developer, be a
game developer. Don’t WANT to be a
game developer, don’t PLAN to be a game
developer, don’t WISH to be one. Go
make a game.” - Jon Comes

27. PROTIP:
“If you want to be a __________, be a
__________. Don’t WANT to be a
__________, don’t PLAN to be a
__________, don’t WISH to be one.
Go do it!”

28. @moarinternets
linkedin/in/jacquelineurick
jacque@sieent.com