5. The games, the book and the impact
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The games
Communicating
Training
Research
Policy
development
Mainly tabletop
games
Hex game session, ISAGA
Summerschool, Paramaribo,
Suriname, 2010
6. The games, the book and the impact
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The book
Concept of
gaming
Game design
process
Hex game session, ISAGA
Summerschool, Paramaribo,
Suriname, 2010
The Game Design Process,
Richard Duke, 1974
7. The games, the book and the impact
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The impact
Introduction of
gaming
Policy makers
Human resource
professionals
Social scientists
Various languages
Dissemination
Sectors
Regions
8. The cycles, the clockwork and the issues
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The cycles
Game
development
Game design
Game realization
Game use
Macro cyle and
micro cycles
(figure)
9. The cycles, the clockwork and
the issues
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Strassbourg Clockwork,
Andrew Fleming (zetgem)
The clockwork
Cycles keep the
facilitator in
control
10. The cycles, the clockwork and the issues
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The issues
Division of labour
Clockwork
character
Complexity
Issues
Labour
division
...
Clockwork
character
...
Complexity
of games
...
11. The times, the tools and the challenges
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The times
Video games
Game programs
and courses
“serious games”
2 years old and totally focussed
12. The times, the tools and the challenges
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The tools
A plethora of new
tools
Toolkit, picture www.perart.com
13. The times, the tools and the challenges
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The challenges
A world full of
change
Globalization
Social media
IT in education – Hype Cycle,
Gartner
15. Opportunities for gaming
The following case describes a mix of
communication, training and
policymaking needs.
Which opportunities for gaming do you
see?
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16. Opportunities for gaming – case
In a Fab Lab (workshop for digital fabrication) visitors come and go.
Some are one time visitors who look around or take a guided tour.
Others have a personal project in mind like making a present for their
partner or a technical construction for in their homes. They are
returning visitors who use the Fab Lab tools and materials for their
personal project.
A third category are inventors and/or entrepreneurs who
systematically develop prototypes for new products.
The Fab Lab management considers their organization as a (worldwide)
knowledge ecosystem.
Visitors, especially the returning ones, create new knowledge, e.g.
about the materials they used and about the typical characteristics
of the machines.
These visitors carry with them implicit knowledge from elsewhere, e.g.
what they studied, what they watched on tv or what they searched
for on internet.
The Fab Lab management wants to archive all this knowledge in
some way and to make it available just in time to other visitors and,
via events and publications, to the community.
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22. Alternative designs
Create a focus group for each of the
approaches to game design.
Develop a game concept based on the
specific approach for the case that
follows.
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23. Alternative designs
The Fab Lab management wants to
develop a game for both its visitors and its
staff.
The game should make them more
conscious of "knowledge management"
and its importance for the Fab Lab.
The game should help them to build a
shared vision on how to organize
knowledge management in the Fab Lab.
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Bergeron, B. (2006). Developing serious games (Game
Development Series). Charles River Media Game
Development.
Bjork, S., & Holopainen, J. (2004). Patterns in Game Design
(Game Development Series). Charles River Media Game
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Duke, R. (1974). Gaming, the future's language. Sage
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Duke, R. (1975), HEX. Ann Arbor: Multilogue Inc..
Moore, O. K., & Anderson, A. R. (1969). Some principles for
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Thiagarajan, S. (2003). Design Your Own Games and
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30. Thank you for your attention!
Pieter van der Hijden
pvdh@sofos.nl
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