Designing Games

DESIGNING GAMES IN THE CLASSROOM

A SMALLab Case Study

Mike Edwards, Parsons The New School for DesignOctober 9, 2010

Welcome to SMALLab

How It All Works

Constraint: Multiple Modalities

Constraint: Scale

Constraint: Embodiment

Constraint: Collaboration

Challenge: Adding Fractions with Different Denominators

What Do Fractions Feel Like?

Drawing from the Teacher’s Practice

Designing FracAttack!

The Teacher Brains of FracAttack!

Designing within the Curriculum

Prototyping: Real-Time Coding

Thanks!

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