Lets make a game workshop ser play orlando 2019

WELCOME TO THE
“Let’s Make A Game”
Workshop
The 3 Hour Version
Facilitated by Chris Wombat Crowell
Performed by “You”
Copyright Crowell Interactive Inc.

Workshop Schedule 9:00AM to 12:00PM
Copyright Crowell Interactive Inc
Workshop
schedule
Start
Time
End
Time
Minutes
per Activity
Start 9:00 9:05 5
• Meet your neighbors while we wait for
stragglers
Intro 9:05 9:15 10
• Workshop Goals
• Meet Presenters
• Establish Goals and Process
Form Teams 9:15 9:25 10
• Discuss and Move to form teams based on
curriculum
Concept
Phase 9:25 10:10 45
• Educational Concepts and Outcomes
• Limits and Rules
• Gameplay Description
Prototyping
Phase 10:10 11:10 60
• Create Rules & Pieces
• Playtest & Iterate
Post Mortem 11:10 11:40 30
• Assessment:
• Quick Share!
• Goals met?
• Process Ups and Downs?
Wrap Up 11:40 11:50 10
• Other Resources
• Contact Info
• Q & A
End 11:50 • All done! Pack up your game and go.

Workshop
schedule
Start
Time
End
Time
Minutes
per Activity
Start 9:00 9:05 5 • Meet your neighbors while we wait for stragglers
Intro 9:05 9:15 10
• Workshop Goals
• Meet Presenter
Form Teams 9:15 9:25 10
• Discuss and Move to form teams based on
curriculum
Concept
Phase 9:25 10:10 45
Prototyping
Phase 10:10 11:10 60
Post Mortem 11:10 11:40 30
• Assessment:
• Quick Share!
• Goals met?
Wrap Up 11:40 11:50 10
• Other Resources
• Contact Info
• Q & A

Who is this guy?
• Chris Wombat Crowell
• Game Design and Creative Direction since 1994
• Worked At Electronic Arts, Maxis, Ubisoft, others
• Now working as Crowell Interactive to assist educators like you to
create awesome Game Based Learning and Educational Gamification

Why use Games to teach?
• Great way to apply and consolidate content
• Requires Design Thinking (by teachers & students!)
• Hits ALL the 21st Century Learning Skills
• Collaboration
• Critical Thinking
• Creativity
• Multidisciplinary
• Multimodal
• Maker Space
• Can be used by YOU!

What are we doing here?
Learning a proven process that has been used
successfully to create effective and engaging
Game Based Learning games.

Workshop Elements
We WON’T be doing
•Using a Toolkit or Software
•Making a polished final game
•Making a Digital Game
•Being bored watching me do all the fun stuff!

Workshop Elements
We WILL be doing
• Learning by Doing!
• Using Best Practices
• Identifying Goals and Constraints
• Concepting game ideas that deliver those goals
• Playtesting and making changes to get closer to the goals
• Analyzing what worked and what didn’t
• Working as a team
• Everyone contributes
• Stay focused on the Goals, not your own preferences
• Ensure that the game uses sound design principles and
pedagogy
• Delivering an ugly prototype that we are satisfied
with

Workshop Outcome
Gain confidence and experience by using
a process that develops a concept into a
prototype.

Roles Today!
Moderator Roles
•Producer Role
• Guiding the Process
• Making Final Decisions
• Watching the Clock (please help with this!)
•Lead Designer
• Ensuring all the Project Goals are included in the Game
Experience
• Droning on about Game Design Principles

Roles Today!
YourRoles
• Educator – deliver all the information about the curriculum,
pedagogy, assessment, and anything else.
• Designer – figure out how to make all of the above fun while
ensuring the learning goals are achieved.
• Artist – minimal since the game product today is an ugly
prototype. So just have fun with that.
• Writer – Words matter. Rules and anything else that needs
writerly thinks.
• Playtester – Play the game objectively and subjectively

Workshop
schedule
Start
Time
End
Time
Minutes
per Activity
Intro 9:05 9:15 10
• Workshop Goals
• Meet Presenters
Form
Teams 9:15 9:25 10
• Discuss and Move to form teams based
on curriculum
Concept
Phase 9:25 10:10 45
Prototyping
Phase 10:10 11:10 60
Post Mortem 11:10 11:40 30
• Assessment:
• Quick Share!
• Goals met?
Wrap Up 11:40 11:50 10
• Other Resources
• Contact Info
• Q & A

Declare Types of Curriculum
and
Form Teams!
Math!
Emotions! History!
Biology!

Form Teams!
1. Mingle!
2. Form teams!
1. Form teams of 6-8 at a table.

Workshop
schedule
Start
Time
End
Time
Minutes
per Activity
Intro 9:05 9:15 10
• Workshop Goals
• Meet Presenters
Form Teams 9:15 9:25 10 • Discuss and Move to form teams based on curriculum
Concept
Phase 9:25 10:10 45
• Design Overview 5
• Curriculum, Concepts, and Outcomes 5
• Scenarios, Actions and Choices 15
• Gameplay Description 10
• Finalize Concept 10
Prototyping
Phase 10:10 11:10 60
Post Mortem 11:10 11:40 30
• Assessment:
• Quick Share!
• Goals met?
Wrap Up 11:40 11:50 10
• Other Resources
• Contact Info
• Q & A

Starting the Concept Phase

Design Overview: Identify Goals for Prototype
•Time: 5 Minutes
•Deliverable: A clear idea of success criteria for your
prototype.
•Medium: Moderator Presentation
•Process:
• What level of learning is desired?
• How hardcore should this experience be?
• How long should a play session run?
• Basic Gameplay Loop

Design Overview: Level of Learning
Awareness
Expert

Design Overview: How Hardcore is the Game?
Casual
Simulation

Design Overview: Length of Play Session?
Quick Session
Marathon

Design Overview: Basic Loop of Play
Observe
Try to
Understand
Plan
Choices!
Execute
Did it
work?

Concept: Choose slice of Curriculum to focus on
•Time: 5 Minutes
•Deliverable: A Curriculum section that the game
will address.
•Process: Identify some choices and discuss pro’s
and con’s
• Ripe for game based approach: “Just reading about this
was boring”
• Relevance: How is it important to real life?

Concept: Deep Dive on Curriculum Concepts
•Time: 10 Minutes
•Deliverable: 1 Concept that players will take
away.
•Process: Identify a few different concepts
and evaluate them
•Are there usable systems associated with the
concept?
•Discuss real world actions that use them
•Choose the one that teaches best + is fun to play

Concept: Define Gameplay
• Time: 15 Minutes
• Deliverable:
• 1 – 2 Actions that players will perform as the key gameplay
• The Gameplay Flow (do this first, then this, then this)
• Success and Fail conditions (1st Pass)
• Process:
1. Discuss scenarios that require the player to make choices
based on their understanding the concepts.
2. Define the actions the player would do that use the concepts.
3. Show how player choices and actions can lead to winning or
losing
4. What are the rules for performing, succeeding, and failing the
actions.
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Concept: Final Concept
• Time: 10 Minute to finalize the Concept
• NOTE – playtest will almost certainly evolve the game here. But it is
essential to have a concept that COULD work as a starting point.
• Deliverable: Concept doc noting the following bullet points:
• Target Audience
• Outcomes: Curriculum and Concepts
• Narrative: Scenario and role of player(s)
• Gameplay:
• How player choices and actions lead to learning outcomes.
• How players Succeed or Fail
• Process: Clarify and write up the Final Concept

Workshop
schedule
Start
Time
End
Time
Minutes
per Activity
Intro 9:05 9:15 10
• Workshop Goals
• Meet Presenters
Concept Phase 9:25 10:10 45
Prototyping
Phase 10:10 11:10 60
Post Mortem 11:10 11:40 30
• Assessment:
• Quick Share!
• Goals met?
Wrap Up 11:40 11:50 10
• Other Resources
• Contact Info
• Q & A

Begin Prototype Phase

Prototype: Create, Play, Review, Evolve
• Time: 60 Minutes
• Deliverable: Ugly
Prototype that achieves
the Goals.
• Process: See chart ➔
1: Create/Update
• Create and Update the
game pieces and rules
2: Playtest
• Watch for Blockages
• Increasingly depend on
Rules exactly as written.
Note needed changes.
3: Review
• Are Concepts being used as gameplay?
• Pedagogy solid?
• Meaningful choices?
• Balance: Easy/Hard
• What should be changed?

Workshop
schedule
Start
Time
End
Time
Minutes
per Activity
Intro 9:05 9:15 10
• Workshop Goals
• Meet Presenters
Concept
Phase 9:25 10:10 45
Prototyping
Phase 10:10 11:10 60
Post
Mortem 11:10 11:40 30
• Assessment
• Quick Share!
• Goals met?
Wrap Up 11:40 11:50 10
• Other Resources
• Contact Info
• Q & A

Post Mortem: Review The Process
• Time: 30 Minutes to share and review the experience
• Deliverable:
• Each team gives 2 minute presentation about their game
• Intended Outcomes:
• Curriculum Concepts
• Gameplay
• Satisfaction with results
• Process:
• Did we meet the Goals in:
• Education?
• Pedagogy?
• Engagement?
• What Went Right?
• Next Time We Should…?

Post Mortem: Regarding The Process
The workshop was focused on a
specific flavor of Game Based
Learning game
But with tweaking, the process works
for any game development project
you want to conceptualize.

Workshop
schedule
Start
Time
End
Time
Minutes
per Activity
Intro 9:05 9:15 10
• Workshop Goals
• Meet Presenters
Concept
Phase 9:25 10:10 45
Prototyping
Phase 10:10 11:10 60
Post Mortem 11:10 11:40 30
• Assessment:
• Quick Share!
• Goals met?
Wrap Up 11:40 11:50 10
• Other Resources
• Contact Info
• Q & A

Q & A + Resources
Chris Info
• chris@crowellinteractive.ca
• www.crowellinteractive.ca
• www.linkedin.com/in/chriswombatcrowell
•Time: 10 Minutes to ask final questions
•Process: Ask Questions!
Some Other Resources:
Gamasutra Game Design
• https://gamasutra.com/category/design/
• Learning Games Network
• learninggamesnetwork.org/
Game Jam Guide pdf
• bit.ly/GJGuide
Teacher Pioneers pdf
• press.etc.cmu.edu/index.php/product/teacher-pioneers/

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