AlchemyKnights is a transformational game designed to teach adolescents and teens about the dangers of over-the-counter medication misuse. In this session we will discuss design strategies for transformational games, mapping design features to transformational outcomes, and using an iterative develop-playtest-fix approach to evaluate and measure the transformational effect.

2. Objectives

3. Objectives
Why are you all here?

4. Name: Dmitriy Babichenko Titles:
1. Professor of Practice
2. Director, Learning Technologies Lab
Primary Appointment: School of Computing &
Information
Secondary Appointment: School of Pharmacy
Age: Irrelevant
Zodiac Sign: Aries

5. Name: Lorin Grieve

6. Title: Reverend Lady Doctor
Vocation: Instructor,
Instructional Designer, Game
Designer
Primary Appointment: School of Pharmacy
Secondary Appointment: School of Computing &
Information Species: Fox/Raven Chimera

7. Who: Ravi Patel
What: New Idea Mercenary (Staff/Faculty
Hybrid)
Where: School of Pharmacy
When: 6+ year in education/practice Why:
Make bad things good

10. What the heck is a game jam?
A game jam is a gathering of people for the purpose of planning,designing, and creating
one or more games within a short span of time, usuallyranging between 24 and 72 hours.
Participantsare generally made up of programmers, game designers, artists, writers, and
others in game development-relatedfields.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_jam

11. Motivation
It all started with a joke - a pharmacist, a reverend, and a computer
nerd walk into a bar...

12. Games4Health Themes
● Asthma
● Cancer
● Depression, anxiety
● Eating disorders
● Diabetesself-management
● Autism
● Learning disorders
● Epilepsy or other seizure disorders
● Food allergies
● Inflammatory bowel disease
● Obesity
● Organ transplant
● Sickle cell disease
● Stuttering
● Medicationabuse

13. Challenges
What do you think was the biggest challenge in organizing this event?
Challenges
● Recruitment
● Funding

14. ● Faculty Engagement
● Perseverance / Retention
● Boredom

15. Recruitment

16. Funding & Support

18. Faculty Engagement
● 10 faculty stakeholders from:
○ School of Nursing
○ School of Medicine
○ College of Business Administration
○ School of Public Health
○ Department of Psychology
○ Children’s Hospital ○
Schoolof Pharmacy
● 7 faculty volunteers
● Example stakeholder pitch: Link

20. Perseverance / Retention

22. Boredom

25. Challenges
● Recruitment
● Funding
● Faculty Engagement
● Perseverance / Retention
● Boredom

26. Outcomes
● 70 students registered, 63 participated
● 13 teams started, 11 teams presented a finished prototype
● 3 teams continuedworking on their games with faculty advisors
● 2 games received grant funding for future research / development
● Games4Health 2018 scheduled for October 19 - 21, 2018

27. 2018

28. October 19th - October
21st
https://pittgames4health.com/

29. Thank you! Questions?