Player 2: Mixing Gameplay and Audience Heuristics

Computers & Writing 2012Scott Reed

AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE

COMPLEXITY

Games are…

• Grammatologically Layered (Code and Image)

Games are…

• Grammatologically Layered (Code and Image)

• Feedback Loops

Games are…

• Grammatologically Layered (Code and Image)

• Feedback Loops

• Facilitators of Knowledge Transfer

COMPLEXITY

GAMES and COMPLEXITY

HEURISTICS

EMERGENCE

EMERGENCE

AUDIENCE

GAMING COURSE DESIGN1. Emergence as a Tool

GAMING COURSE DESIGN1. Emergence as a Tool

3. Emergence as a Practice

Do I have a specific group or groups of readers in mind—my family, parents of teenagers, churchgoers, legislators, or scientists?

What opinions and values do they probably share that are relevant to my topic? Are they likely to agree with one another? With me?

Do they know more, or less, than I do about the subject? What do I need to learn in order to address this audience?

How simple or technical should my language be? What terms or concepts will I need to define, explain, or illustrate?

What do I want to accomplish in writing this? To teach my readers something? Convince them of my point of view? Move them to action—or to tears? Entertain them?

GAMING COURSE DESIGN1. Emergence as a Tool

3. Emergence as a Practice

5. Emergence of Multiple Audiences

GAMING COURSE DESIGN1. Emergence as a Tool

3. Emergence as a Practice

5. Emergence of Multiple Audiences

7. Emergence into Multiple forms of Production

GOALS, ACCIDENTS, AND LOOPS

Three sites for interrogation:

• Meaning within the Game (Audience Text)↔

• Meaning around the Game (Text Writer)↔

• Meaning outside the Game (Writer Audience)↔

GOALS

ACCIDENTS AND LOOPS

ACCIDENTS AND LOOPS

ENACTED

ACCIDENTS AND LOOPS

ENACTED

NETWORKED

ACCIDENTS AND LOOPS

ENACTED

REFLEXIVE

NETWORKED

Thank you.

Scott ReedGeorgia Gwinnett Collegesreed3@ggc.edu@rhetoroxor on Twitter