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From gamification to game design
The document discusses the design of games for social impact, particularly focusing on creating e-learning tools to address issues of neglect and abuse among young people in Europe. It covers key design principles, such as the importance of simplicity, community engagement, and storytelling in game mechanics. Additionally, it touches on the distinctions between applied games and traditional games, emphasizing their purpose beyond entertainment.
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- 1. From Gamification to Game Design Pietro Polsinelli @ppolsinelli These slides: http://bit.ly/rulescraft
- 2. Transformation 1/3 Gamesfor Social Impact
- 3. … to developand implement a game infused e-learning tool to promote early access to services with neglect and abuse for young people on the move in Europe Wednesday, December 3, 2014 Mission. 3
- 4. Kids becoming awareand capable of dealing with situations of neglect and abuse. 4
- 5. Pick a mod,just change the labels ... 5
- 6. Collateral story getsin the way of play. 6
- 7. Designing Games forSocial Impact RE-DESIGN
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- 9. Inspired by DumbWays To Die. Specific mechanics. 9
- 10. Represent notions with characters 10
- 11. Inspired by Dominions:cards are characters, actions, a universe.
- 12. Universe made ofsimple atoms 12
- 13. Build up ofawareness defines the game mechanics. 13
- 14. Game loop: shithappens.
- 15. Deal with itand keep your universe together. 15
- 17. Designing Games for Social Impact TIPS
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- 19. Cards constitute auniverse, not just characters and actions. Also universal language. Developers, cards are objects – classes, instances, extensions.
- 20. More pervasive thanit looks. 20
- 21. Plants vs. Zombies(1) was born and prototyped as a card game – actually collectible card game.
- 22. Complexity trains strategic thinking. 22
- 23. Distinction between inputoutput randomness & unpredictability: from Randomness and Game Design
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- 25. Games with simplerelations and play mechanics are simpler to evolve. 25
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- 27. Keep a goodstate in the loop AND supply an evolving story line.
- 28. Stories kill funin loops. 28
- 29. If Games WereLike Game Stories...
- 30. From Nick CaseIf Games Were Like Game Stories... Games don’t’ branch, they evolve.
- 31. Even branching gamesdo not have branching at their core.
- 32. Interact early withconcept art. 32
- 33. Black and whitegames: “get ready for fight or flight”
- 34. What I sayhere is based on anecdotal evidence from working experience, no data no lab.
- 35. Applied games definitionand theory
- 36. An applied game(serious game) is a game designed for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment. Take this as a sort of definition. Hard to say which are not serious. Note that in effort, style, problematic this changes little.
- 37. Self referential /Referring games Both may be good or bad. 37
- 38. You will needfull game design skils – and more - to create good games that teach something.
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- 40. Game design isa specific profession. Image from Extra Credits.
- 41. Working in appliedgames is particularly complex / interesting because you are working in between systems. 41
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- 43. A game whereyou can’t win, and its not fun. 43
- 44. This War ofMine
- 45. Each game isplayed because of a motivational framework defined by… the game itself. 45
- 46. Transformation 2/6 Gamesfor Health
- 47. Help people thatare evolving towards a chronic desease by influencing behavior and disrupting this evolution. NDA 47
- 48. Customer thinks (s)heknows what “game” means. This is a problem. 48
- 49. Designing Games forHealth RE-DESIGN
- 50. Category, competition, avatar, war, reward, levels Wednesday, December 3, 2014 Vs. Inclusive, mentor, path, story, transformation A language change. 50
- 51. Ian Bogost: gamificationis bullshit. 51
- 53. Redesigned by includingnegative feedback, turning avatar to mentor, building an AI.
- 54. Designing Games forHealth TIPS
- 55. Distinguish (and thenmerge) projective experiences and couching.
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- 57. Power of baptism.Comes in many forms... 57
- 58. the greatest inventionof the video game era was – and continues to be – “single-play”. Applied game’ customers often don’t get this. Independence, absence.
- 59. Beyond the avatar:Discarding the relatable avatar for a meaningful voice learning from poetry
- 60. Transformation 3/6 Gamesfor Change
- 61. This is thecommunication context. Few really cares about global warming, we have to make people aware of consequences. 61
- 62. agent based model Not so cool for not geeks. 62
- 63. Designing Games forChange RE-DESIGN
- 64. Dystopic future, likein The Curfew. “Lacking food water oil”, daily life has to change. 64 Wednesday, December 3, 2014
- 65. How will youprepare breakfast without electricity? 65
- 66. Variations on dailylife habits due to external changes. 66
- 67. Designing Games forChange TIPS
- 68. Emergence: a setof simple rules acting on many elements. The game is an emergent behaviour Progression: a predefined set of actions to be performed to complete the game 68
- 69. Emergence / Progression Sim City, Braid.
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- 72. Become a gamedesigner: study, prototype, release, loop
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- 76. Sources www.gamasutra.com/blogs/KeithBurgun/20141015/227740/Randomness_and_Game_Design.php?utm_s ource=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GamasutraNews+%28Gamasutra+N ews%29 http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/NickyCase/20140811/222467/If_Games_Were_Like_Game_Stories.ph p?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GamasutraNews+%28Gama sutra+News%29 http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/microsites/global_sustainability_institute/o ur_research/resource_management.Maincontent.0021.file.tmp/Climate%2520Chang e_Resource%2520Scarcity_Conflict%252019-09.pdf http://www.aboutkidshealth.ca/En/Pages/default.aspx https://mysugr.com/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/littleloud/6725429655/in/photostream/ http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/24200000/Dominion-card-and-tile-games- 24276844-502-405.jpg 76
- 77. My twitter streamis mostly dedicated to game design http://twitter.com/ppolsinelli A blog on game design http://designagame.eu
Editor's Notes
- #2 Game Design: From Rules to Craft
- #4 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #5 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #6 Little big palnet. As typical of superficially gamified solutions, the teaching is actually an obstacle in the natural gameplay.
- #7 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #9 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #10 Keep me safe http://dumbwaystodie.com/ we have the social events involve the kids even in the game design
- #11 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #13 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #14 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #16 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #17 Game is characters and card based. Projective character and stories that evolve.
- #19 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #21 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #23 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #24 Game state and player perception. Positive combinatiorial explosion.
- #25 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #26 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #28 You are building a meaningful app.
- #29 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #30 This is often a problem for designers coming from web design, or narrative.
- #32 80 days there are choices in a graph with state
- #33 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #35 A word of caution.
- #36 This was to taste what I want to do today. Bare with me, a few simple distinctions.
- #37 Applied games, a.k.a. Serious games Playful solutions Persuasive games and... Gamified solutions
- #38 Just take a mental note. Both may be good and bad. Connected with the autotelic / instrumental gameplay aim.
- #39 My point. I will present examples and tips. Applied game our focus is solving a problem which the user have. In games the problem u want to solve is (hidden) how I game designer express myself artistically, as once was done by painters and writers? The list of patterns, they are still around, “if you want to make a successful social game follow this list”, sad story [find image of bullets]. If this were true, why the most experts in the field fail continuously? I have only 4 years experience in game design, I see the rate of extraordinary fantastic idea / released game not improving. Actually getting worse.
- #40 gamification bullet lists stand to game design as "tricks" for writing good novels: a bad idea, symptom of deep misunderstandings actually applied games have all the complexity of game design PLUS more
- #41 Here I am saying game design as a possible specific profession. Not the lonely hero. Consulting for a game for a corporation, your work is 1% of the total effort. Fine. Game designer not for AAA studios.
- #42 “From Gamification to Game Design”: why? As a process to provide effective solutions. It is a good thing, because it works.
- #45 Pragmatic approach: fun is learning, play to gain competence -> add slide This war of mine -> plus tweet - know litterature and focus on your game details
- #46 Again, no shortcuts.
- #49 “I think the reason is that the client doesn’t really know what a game designer does.” http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/28/why-and-how-to-hire-a-game-designer/?utm_content=buffer2fd34&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Hence has opinions; this is very bad. there is a pattern: first you have to steer the customer to a project that is feasible and fun and compatible with their own requirements When is your game design “good”? This should be rephrased as “those you set as judges, are happy?” For this level of complexity, it probably should be a cycle of improvements more than a masterpiece; this is why game design is not defined independently from development and the release / improve cycle. Making points about games without prototypes is hard. YOU HAVE TO DO A BIG EFFORT: Not only replace gamification to game design, game design cycle expanded to working prototypes Bsw: I suggest to adopt game design as a competence you can enlist. But its not an add on, its usually the full trip.
- #51 Type 1 Diabetes #persuasive When there is no game but the customer wants fun Competition,. genres: do you want to select the audience? Contests are games? Social networks are games? Lens: Collect data always, be inclusive The mentor /projection dynamics This project gave us the opportunity to explore the relationship between the mentor xxx. We had these conflicting requirements: The mentor is a basic role of [The Writer’s Journey]. In some way you do have to reward the player: the point is that reward is one of those infinite depth words.
- #52 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #53 This is by Ian Bogost “Gamification is Bullshit”. We want to use game design proper, not gamification, for not strictly videoludical purposes. The customer came with practically all the “ideas” on the right.
- #65 . Started from emergent … https://www.flickr.com/photos/littleloud/6725429655/in/photostream/ “The Curfew, an epic adventure webgame about civil liberty and dystopian futures from Channel 4 and Littleloud.” Ask for concrete examples: making breakfast without electricity … brings the light and the possibility of fun.
- #66 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #67 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #69 Facilitate access to social services to kids in trouble.
- #71 “Jesper Juul made the invaluable distinction between games of emergence and games of progression that informs the entire book.” http://www.jesperjuul.net/text/openandtheclosed.html
- #74 Game mechanics is a field of its own, as is the litterature on engagement. Ho selezionato I riferimenti per qualità, non per popolarità. My friend Sebastian Deterding In the infoberg give references by theme: fun -> fun bookGamification deterding (again takeaway clearing ambiguities), amyUser models: kahnemanVirtual: lehdonGame mechanics: schell, fun, what
- #76 Callois paidia & ludus I will now introduce some of the most effective categorization I found in my ongoing research.