fun and frustration = learning and games

Fun & Frustration

Learning & Games

Drew Davidson

Fun & Frustration

Games aren’t just Fun

Fun has a Half-Life

Pleasantly Frustrating

Flow & Failure

Challenge & Reward

On Game Design

Interest Curves

Procedural

Interactivity

Gamepocalypse

Interest Curves

Procedural

Interactivity

Gamepocalypse

Gamification

Funware

MSG

Secret Sauce

Make it Seem Game-like

Gameful

Spirit of Games

On Learning

Failure

Doubt

Curiosity

Articulations

Ecologies

Failure

Fail Faster

Experiment, Explore

Rapid Prototyping

Iterate toward Solutions

Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.

Doubt

Question Answers

Challenge Assumptions

Work to Understand

To be Uncertain isto be Uncomfortable, but to be Certain isto be Ridiculous.

Curiosity

Ask Questions & Engage

Lifelong Learning & How Stuff Works

Problem Solving & Cheating?

Story Telling & Model Making

Articulations

Systemic

Connections

Associations

Relationships

Transference

Interdisciplinary

Ecologies

Learning

Overlapping

Evolving

Interrelating

Connecting

Learning & Games

Creation

Distribution

Assessment

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.

Creation

Collaborative

Multi-Media

User Generated

Remix

IP

Design

Distribution

More Channels

Aggregation

Collation & Curation

On Demand

Digital

Tagging & Rating

Search

Assessment

Community

Real-Time

Data Visualization

Constructive

Systemic

Qualitative

Literacy

WorkingExamples.org

Process and Progress

Visualize Connections

Design Decisions

Fun & Frustration = Learning &

Games

Either/Or – Both/And

Flow & Explore

Challenge & Reward

Agency & Literacy

Playing is Learning

On Games & Learning

Beyond Fun

Serious Games and Media

Well Played

Video Games, Value and Meaning

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Thanks!

Questions?

drdrew@cmu.edu