A quick session on remixing play with the Engineering, Environment and Computing faculty

1. Remixing Play into
a GamePlan
Reuse the mechanics of play for
creative and strategic thinking
Needs
analysis
Pick
common
games
Strategy-
mechanics
mapping
Design a
gameplan
Pitch/imple
ment your
gameplan

3. Our GamePlan for today
•Get in a group of 4-5
•Pick your theme (Roll the Die)
1. Social Change
2. Health
3. Environment
4. Transportation
5. Engineering
6. Politics

5. •Goals (objectives,
aspirations,
winning
conditions)
•People
(beneficiaries,
users, etc.
•Context (domain,
industry, etc.)
Step 1:
Needs analysis
(10 minutes)

6. •Pick 1-3 games
you know
•Unpick the
mechanics/rules
•Game strategies
Step 2:
Pick common
games
(10 minutes)

7. •Reuse the
mechanics to
inform strategy
•Test each strategy-
mechanics mapping
•Iterate the process
Step 3:
Strategy-mechanics
mapping
(10 minutes)

8. •Describe your
gameplan
•Test the
gameplan
•Prepare your
PITCH
•Name your
GamePlan
Design a
gameplan
(10 minutes)

9. PITCH
(2 mins each team)

10. Vote
• Most Fun
• Most Impact
• Use post its – stick on other people’s tables
• Yellow – Most Fun
• Orange – Most impact