This document summarizes a game prototyping workshop presented by Vasilis Gkogkidis and Pete Jenkins. The workshop covers rules and win states, game mechanics, prototyping games, and playtesting. It includes examples of rules and mechanics for games like football and Monopoly. Attendees will participate in exercises to design rules, mechanics, and prototypes for games, then playtest each other's work to provide feedback on improvements. The goal is to help others learn how to effectively design game mechanics and prototypes.

1. Vasilis Gkogkidis - Pete Jenkins
Game Prototyping Workshop

2. Vasilis Gkogkidis
• Gamification designer and
consultant at GAMIFICATION+
• Greek Ambassador at GamFed
(International Gamification
Confederation)
• Thessaloniki Gamification meetup
organiser

3. Pete Jenkins
• Founder of GAMIFICATION+
• Chair at GamFed (International
Gamification Confederation)
• Entrepreneur in residence at the
University of Brighton
• Ambassador for Brighton & Hove
Chamber of Commerce

4. What we do
• Consulting
• Speaking
• Training

5. Workshop Overview
1) Rules – Win State
2) Game Mechanics
3) Prototyping
4) Play testing

6. “Games give us unnecessary obstacles that we
volunteer to tackle” Bernard Suits

7. Rules – Win State

8. Small Case Studies
Rules - Win State

9. Football
• Rule:
You can’t touch the ball with your
hands unless you are the
goalkeeper
• Win State:
Score more goals than your
opponent

10. Monopoly
• Rule:
You can buy a property only when
you are on it’s square
• Win State:
Have the biggest net value

11. Rules – Win State Exercise
Challenge 1: Choose a rule and a win state that works well in a game and present it
to your team.
15 minutes

12. Game Mechanics

13. Small Case Studies
Game Mechanics

14. Points - Leaderboards
Goal:
Introduce
Competition

16. Randomness
Goal:
Balance the odds
among players

17. Goal:
Surprise Players
Randomness

18. Game Mechanic Exercise
• Challenge 2: Choose a game and a game mechanic that works well and present it
to your team.
15 minutes

19. Prototyping
By the end of this exercise
you need to have:
• A title for your
game
• The game’s rules
on a piece of paper
• A prototype other
teams can play
(50 minutes)

20. Play testing
Try each others solution and
give feedback. Try to find:
• What works
• What needs improvement
• How it made you feel
• How would you improve it
(50 minutes)

21. Thank You!
• #gamification
• Email: vasilis.gkogkidis@gamificationplus.uk
• Twitter: @v_Gkogkidis
• Email: pete.jenkins@gamificationplus.uk
• Twitter: @petejenkins
• Twitter: @gamifiplus