remixing play into a gameplan workshop

Remixing Play into a GamePlanReuse the mechanics of play for creative and strategic thinking

Needs analysis

Pick common

games

Strategy-mechanics mapping

Design a gameplan

Pitch/implement

your gameplan

Motivation

“Games are a particular manifestation of play, not

its totality…

They happen to be a good starting point for an

investigation of play…

…because the formality of their rules makes the

machinery of play easier to observe and analyse”

(Upton, 2015 p.11)

Remixing Play into a GamePlanReuse the mechanics of play for creative and strategic thinking

Needs analysis

Pick common

games

Strategy-mechanics mapping

Design a gameplan

Pitch/implement

your gameplan

• Goals (objectives, aspirations, winning conditions)• People (beneficiaries, users, etc.• Context (domain, industry, etc.)

Needs analysis

• Pick 1-3 games you know• Unpick the mechanics• Game strategies

Pick common games

• Reuse the mechanics to inform strategy• Test each strategy-mechanics mapping• Iterate the process

Strategy-mechanics mapping

• Describe your gameplan• Test the gameplan Design a

gameplan

Pitch your gameplan

• Goals (objectives, aspirations, winning conditions)

• People (beneficiaries, users, etc.

• Context (domain, industry, etc.)

Needs analysis

• Pick 1-3 games you know

• Unpick the mechanics/rules

• Game strategies

Pick common games

• Reuse the mechanics to inform strategy

• Test each strategy-mechanics mapping

• Iterate the process

Strategy-mechanics mapping

• Describe your gameplan

• Test the gameplan

Design a gameplan

Pitch/Implement your gameplan

Our GamePlan for today• Get into groups • Go through the Remix Plan process• Needs analysis (15 minutes)• Pick and unpick common games (20 minutes)• Strategy-Mechanics mapping (20 minutes)• Design your GamePlan (20 minutes)• Pitch your GamePlan (15 minutes)

• AddingPlay cards – for inspiration to enrich your gameplan

Use these cards to inspire and enhance your gameplan? (20

minutes)

New iterations? (10)