A presentation hosted by Lyr Lobo on Friday, March 18, 2011 at the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education.

1. Designing Simulations and Games: Design Tips and Tricks Cynthia Calongne Colorado Technical University Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education, March 2011

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4. Requirements and Assessment

5. Simulation design

6. Roles and behavior

7. Design tips and tricks

8. Linking and scripts3

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11. What: a game or a simulation?

12. When: timeframe and setting

13. Where: the environment

14. Why: learning objectives

15. How: roles, interaction and behavior5

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18. Plan for assessment, reuse & the archives

19. Primitive limits, resources & requirements

20. Interaction and object behavior

21. Quests and outcomes

22. Foster discovery and knowledge creation

23. Plan for collaboration7

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27. Versions and retexturing

28. Rezzers – performance tradeoffs

29. Behavior - inheritance

30. Special effects – particles, sounds, scripts

31. Use the library + full permission freebies10

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35. Link seats in reverse order

36. Spam vs performance

37. Give contents – how and when?

38. Reduce floating text - fade

39. Phantom versus physical

40. Self-cleaning simulations13

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53. ccalongne@coloradotech.edu

54. For more information:

55. http://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/presentations

56. Videos

57. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1399395902637

58. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=140425194403525