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APA 2015 Ready to Play session
- 1. Ready to Play? How games can inspire decision-making in planning Lien Tran, MFA Assistant Professor of Interactive Media University of Miami @LienT Lienbtran.com L.Tran@miami.edu
- 2. MFA in Interactive Media Minor in Interactive Media http://interactive.miami.edu Focused on communication for social and behavioral change through engaged scholarship and immersive experience and Interdisciplinary collaborations http://com.miami.edu/center-for-ccc
- 3. University of Miami’s Immigrant Children's Affirmative Network (ICAN) program as part of Immigrant Children Legal and Services Partnership (ICLASP)
- 4. Humanitarian games Address or advocate human welfare/wellbeing Uwezeshaji Kaya Kuhimili (World Bank / TASAF)
- 5. • Simulation games as interactive, alternative to standard of care • Players as active learners engaged in parallel play • Opportunity to explore a real-world system, its objects (actors), and its relationships for enhanced problem-solving and informed decision-making Humanitarian games As simulation
- 8. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato
- 9. 1. Are an active, participatory activity. 2. Provide opportunities for players to empathize. 3. Allow players to role-take + look at the world from a different perspective. 4. Allow players to role-take from more than one perspective. 5. Encourage replay. 6. Are inherently systems and therefore can simulate complexity. 7. Provide an accelerated network effect. 8. Can connect a new audience with the issue. 9. Can influence real-world outcomes through activation of cognitive mechanism. 10. Are transformative. Why games for change (planning)? Because games ....
- 10. http://www.slideshare.net/SeriousGamesAssoc/sabrina-haskell-culyba courtesy of Sabrina Haskell Culyba, Schell Games
- 11. Magnitude National development and disaster planning
- 12. Let’s Play! Form teams of 4
- 13. Let’s debrief! Links to game materials are available at: http://lienbtran.com/games/magnitude
- 14. Building Up based on City Game from Fields of View fieldsofview.in
- 15. Game Objective Build a city in which you would like to live.
- 16. Game Setup Form a group of 7-10 people Tell the facilitator your name and pick a Post-It color
- 17. Game Setup Take a set of Post-Its in your color (should be a different color from all other players in your group) Take a marker
- 18. Game Rules For each round, in a set order, each player takes a turn adding a structure to the landscape, marked with what it is on your color Post-It and announcing what it is to your group. You can use multiple blocks to create a structure, but you can only create 1 structure total on each turn. After each player’s turn, the facilitator will write down what you built and also take a picture of the landscape. We’ll play 10 rounds total.
- 20. Building Up Game debrief Each player takes a turn to answer each question: 1. How big is the city in terms of its population? 2. Would you live in this city? 3. Why or Why not?
- 21. Building Up Game debrief 4. Take turns sharing what influenced your building decisions throughout game. 5. What was your reaction when other players added their structures? Why? 6. What would you change about the city in retrospect?
- 22. Building Up Possible game modifications 1. Use tape to designate natural or manmade barriers at the start of the game. 2. Assign personas to each player so they design/build from that perspective. 3. Run this exercise with members of the community you are designing for. https://vimeo.com/100886647 https://vimeo.com/100886647
- 23. Game-Based Resources for Planning Carcassonne Board game https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/822/carcassonne