Dust Diaries
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This document discusses common mistakes made when developing educational games. It notes that separating education and entertainment is a false distinction, and that playtesting, iteration, and including learning specialists throughout development are important. It emphasizes challenging the player through failure and difficulty done right. Overall, the document advocates for developing games that foster curiosity, questioning of assumptions, and transformational learning beyond just knowledge transfer.
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Dust Diaries
- 1. Dust Diaries How Things Can Go Wrong Drew Davidson
- 2. a little bit about me
- 3. Games & Learning Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.
- 4. Games & Learning Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.
- 5. Games & Learning Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.
- 6. Dust Happens Things Go Wrong Common Mistakes Unfortunate Misconceptions
- 7. All Eggs In One Basket Just Make One Game Or That One Game Solves All
- 8. Fun, Fun, Fun It’s All About Making It Fun Or Fun Is Just Something To Include
- 9. No Testing Not Playtesting Early And Often Not Iterating Design Ideas
- 10. Feature Creep Include All Ideas Include All Feedback
- 11. Excluding Team Not Including Game Designers Throughout Not Including Learning Specialists Throughout
- 12. Gamify! Just Add Badges To Track And Reward Learning
- 13. All Done! Finished When You Release No PR Or Distribution Plan
- 14. Opposite Day It’s Easy And Quick And Cheap To Make
- 15. Just Add... Just Add Some Fun To Learning Just Add Some Learning To Fun
- 16. Anyone Can Do It Academic Fallacy Not Everyone Is A Designer
- 17. Creepy Treehouse Fake Fun, Smells Like Education Bad Learning Games = Suckn
- 18. For Instance
- 19. Making Magic Design Process Learning Goals In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
- 20. Less Talk, More Rock
- 21. Less Talk, More Rock
- 22. Less Talk, More Rock
- 23. It’s Hard Games are HARD
- 24. Really Hard Games are HARD Learning is HARD
- 25. Challenge is Good In Games and Learning Scaffolding Challenges Pleasantly Frustrating
- 26. Pleasantly Frustrating Not too Simple
- 27. Pleasantly Frustrating Not too Simple Not too Hard
- 28. Flow & Failure Rewarding Challenges Difficulty & Mastery Agency & Literacy
- 29. Failure Learn from our Mistakes, Develop Grit Fail Faster, Experiment, Explore Rapid Prototyping Iterate toward Solutions Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.
- 30. Doubt Question Answers Challenge Assumptions Work to Understand Open to Changing Your Mind To be Uncertain is to be Uncomfortable, but to be Certain is to be Ridiculous.
- 31. Curiosity Ask Questions & Engage Lifelong Learning & How Stuff Works Problem Solving & Cheating (?) Story Telling & Model Making Curiosity was Framed, Ignorance killed the Cat.
- 32. Curiosity Literacy How to Learn Challenge Yourself Create on Your Own Life-Long Skill
- 33. Curiosity Literacy How to Learn Challenge Yourself Create on Your Own Life-Long Skill
- 34. World’s Best Playground With an Electric Fence Learning needs Challenges Success needs Failures Creativity needs Constraints Extraordinary needs Boundaries Magic needs Dust
- 35. Transformational Games Games for Impact Beyond Transference Learning, Playing, Creating Changes in Daily Lives
- 37. Games For Impact Academic Consortium Best Practices http://gamesforimpact.com