Here is a live event from April 29th by course staff for the EdX course I’m now attending called the “Design and Development of Games for Learning”. The Google hangout format offers participants a critique from the course staff on prototypes now in progress.
The live hangout Q&A is available by clicking on the box with nine cubes in the right corner. If you watch the video, fast forward to avoid some of the usual delays found in getting everyone on board.
If you fast forward to 36.20 you will see GAMEBLOX, a game template used by participants to show how a game might work. Other critiques involve paper playcards for use with others to find out if the game is actually “fun”. Participants are encouraged to use the course forum to share ideas about games now in progress during the course.
“Game” is such a broad word covering so many human activities. We sometimes hear things like “it’s all just a game”, or “everything is a game”. Clearly a human process that’s built into a deep layer of our human OS. And very appropriate as part of DLE, so glad Kris is exploring this for us.
Was amused to find that “Genetics #4 offers a button for “make a baby”…but seriously, human sexuality is sometimes called a game between the sexes. (or a war, but wars are sometimes considered games too).
When I listen to the audio, it sounds like it’s recorded a bit underwater…not clean and crisp…. which is so important when there’s so much talking going on. Audio can suffer from any part of the reproduction process, so it may have been recorded okay on site, only to deteriorate somewhere else in the chain of custody.