designing location-aware nature games
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Dr Kate Howland (Informatics) and Catherine Grundy (Product Design), University of Sussex - an overview of an ongoing project using location-aware game creation as a widening participation activity for young people. Kate and Catherine presented some example games and highlighted the skills and understandings involved in the activity, and noted how this project relates to their broader research agendas.TRANSCRIPT
Designing Location-aware Nature Games: Widening Participation in Informatics and Product Design
Kate Howland (Informatics)Cathy Grundy (Product Design)
Background•Widening Participation • Location-aware games
Why game design?
•Design vs. Play•Motivation• Complexity• Authenticity
•Design vs. Play•Motivation• Complexity• Authenticity
Context• Real world challenge area:• older children not engaging in Sussex Wildlife
Trust activities• make a game that would encourage older
children to engage with nature in Stanmer Park
Project logistics• June 2013 and June 2014• 24 pupils from a local primary school (all
aged 9-10)• Activities (on campus, at Stanmer Park and
at school):• Park visits for inspiration, content gathering
and testing – using iPad minis• Character and narrative design activities• Implementation of games –using school and
university laptops
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• Simple animation software