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Thinking 102
Game Thinking for Creative Industries
Presentation by | Dagmawi, Ethiopia,
Inspiration & Partial Content from | Tomas Debass, Ethiopia

2.
What has Changed?

3.
Game Thinking:
The shift from
Thinking to
Experiencing (Doing)

4.
Why aren’t We Changing?

5.
Observation

6.
Passivity:
• Consuming
• Waiting
• Scarcity
• Reactive

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Passivity is the focus on
the one belly than the two
hands. [Silent Killers]

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Humble
Habit
Movement
Passive Active

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Humble acknowledge your
passiveness, Understand
there is a better way and
Deside to take the step NOW

10.
The Growth Rings

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Travel travel in time &
witness who you have
become.

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Habit design Rituals for the
NEW state you want to be in.

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Rituals

14.
Categories
Each coder/innovator uses
different methods of tech
What methods will you use to
develop your idea?
● Hardware
● Websites
● Mobile Apps
● Games and Animations

15.
Innovation is a
byproduct of
design thinking.

16.
What makes a great
design thinker?

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An observing eye
and a constant
sense of wonder.

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It’s believing that the
best solution is yet
to be found.

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It’s the willingness
to fail early and fail
often.

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The D.School Design Thinking Process

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What If
Learn about the audience
for whom you are
designing

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“What If?”
It’s both deductive
and abductive and
is fueled by hard
empathy.

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Predict the past:
Being deductive means
using past knowledge to
solve current problems.

24.
Remember the future:
Being abductive means
imagining and visualizing a
future that should yet exist.

25.
Trance with hard
empathy.

26.
What?
Construct a point of view
that is based on user
needs and insights
Reframe the problem

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4+4=? Limited Solution

28.
Infinite Solution ?+?=8

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Brainstorm
Brainstorm and come up
with creative solutions

30.
Chindogu:
Connect +
Combine

31.
Pretotype
Build a representation or
pretotype* of your ideas

32.
Elmo’s
Monster
Maker
App

33.
Sometimes you win.
Sometimes you learn!
Discover your challenges
and correct errors

34.
Don’t Pitch. Tell A Story!

35.
Backpack, purse, wallet, or carry-on bag

36.
Engine of Innovation

37.
Samuel P. Langley vs.
The Wright Brothers

38.
Entrepreneurs are not
puzzle builders, they're
quilt makers.

39.
Murmuration