transportation games and intentional constraints
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Transportation Games and
Intentional ConstraintsMark Chen @mcdanger [email protected]
SHACS FutureTech 2016 KeynoteApril 8, 2016 Sam Houston State University
Mark Chen
Pepperdine University Gameful Design Lab
Gameful Design Lab MissionIncrease → agency and empathy through gaming.
Agency
Agency
Agency
Empathy
Empathy
Empathy
Empathy
Audience
New HS Game Design UnitsLots of great curriculum work!
Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games by Sam Kabo Ashwell
New HS Game Design UnitsAnd some cool innovative student projects!
Urban Afterschool Hacker SpaceUnity grant12-week summer studio
LA Board Game Jam
Transportation Games and
Intentional ConstraintsMark Chen @mcdanger [email protected]
SHACS FutureTech 2016 KeynoteApril 8, 2016 Sam Houston State University
Vehicles,Infrastructure,
Operations
Vehicle Simulators:Trucks!
Vehicle Simulators:The Transporter
Play Roundabout
Infrastructure
Operations
Gunshow: The Farmer’s Riddle by KC Green
Gunshow: The Farmer’s Riddle by KC Green
Gunshow: The Farmer’s Riddle by KC Green
System Failures
Games are Systems of Constraints*
*http://markdangerchen.net/pubs/anewdefinition.html
“Playing a game is the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.”
-Bernard Suits
Learning through Failure
Incomplete Systems
As we design, what do we leave out?“In a large, continuing study of upward mobility based at Harvard, commuting time has emerged as the single strongest factor in the odds of escaping poverty. The longer an average commute in a given county, the worse the chances of low-income families there moving up the ladder.”
“The relationship between transportation and social mobility is stronger than that between mobility and several other factors, like crime, elementary-school test scores or the percentage of two-parent families in a community, said Nathaniel Hendren, a Harvard economist and one of the researchers on the study.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/upshot/transportation-emerges-as-crucial-to-escaping-poverty.html
Marginalized Community?
Games are an “…art form that is ideally suited to fostering understanding.”
-Steve Wilcox
http://www.firstpersonscholar.com/videogames-and-empathy/
Empathy through Design
But what do players do?
Leet Noobs:Expertise is successful
arrangement of systems (aka
network)
●Intentional design of constraints.
●Pay attention to players.
Takeaways
Transportation Games and
Intentional ConstraintsMark Chen @mcdanger [email protected]
SHACS FutureTech 2016 KeynoteApril 8, 2016 Sam Houston State University