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Digital Gaming

Digital Gaming. Kurt Squire MIT Comparative Media Studies / Indiana University IST. Game Design. Agency: Choices & Consequences Goals, Challenges, Failure and attribution Spatial Narratives Gender and Play Patterns. Choices and Consequences. “Delicious Interactions”. Information. Choice.

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Digital Gaming

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  1. Digital Gaming Kurt SquireMIT Comparative Media Studies /Indiana University IST

  2. Game Design • Agency: Choices & Consequences • Goals, Challenges, Failure and attribution • Spatial Narratives • Gender and Play Patterns

  3. Choices and Consequences “Delicious Interactions” Information Choice Feedback

  4. Choices: Power-Ups

  5. Role Playing

  6. Goals, Failure, & Attribution • Embedded Goals and Success states

  7. Goals, Failure, & Attribution • Learning through Failure

  8. Games as Narrative Architecture • Evocative Stories • Enacted Stories • Embedded Stories • Emergent Storytelling

  9. Evocative Stories

  10. Enacted Stories

  11. Embedded Stories

  12. Emergent Narratives

  13. Gender

  14. GIRLS: Leading characters are everyday people that girls can relate to, and are as real to girls as their best friends. Explore and have new experiences, with degrees of success and varying outcomes. Play focuses on multi-sensory immersion, discovery, and strong story lines. Features everyday 'real life' settings. Success comes through development of friendships. BOYS : Leading characters are fantasy-based action heroes with "super power" abilities.“ Win in linear. Outcome is black and white; die and start over; one 'right' solution. Speed and action are key. Play involves stunts, daring, and scatalogical humor Features non-realistic, larger-than-life settings. Success comes through the elimination of competitors. Gender Play Patterns

  15. Games as Spatial Storytelling • Story-driven games • Arrangement of spaceto produce maximumnarrative impact

  16. Atmospheric Design

  17. Exploratory Spaces

  18. Social Spaces

  19. Questions, etc. • ksquire@mit.edu • http://cms.mit.edu/games/education/

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