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TODAY:1)Icebreaker2)Before we start with readings: what is a game?3)McGonigal4)Caillois5)Juul6)Our first analysis7)Homework

Today’s Icebreaker:Who is your favorite

video game characterand why?

Form groups

Like last class, I’m going to open a Word document. I want you toin your group define “game.”Then, send someone up to putyour definition into the document.

McGonigalFor today you read a small piece

from McGonigal’s Reality is Broken, which was the summer

reading for our first yearstudents.

Goal: specific outcome for player Rules: limitations on how to achieve goalFeedback system: tells you how close you are to goalVoluntary participation: you choose to play.

Caillois1. Free: you don’t have to play

2. Separate: basically magic circle3.Uncertain: you don’t see where

it is going…4.Unproductive: you don’t make stuff

5. Governed by rules6. Make-believe

Juul1. Rules2. Variable and quantifiable outcome3. Valorization of outcome4. Player effort5. Player attached to outcome6. Negotiable consequences

Our First Analysis

To the web for the assignment!

An Activity

1.Form a group.2.Look at our 3 definitions ofa game from the readings3.Look at the analysis assignment sheet4.Craft a “game” rubric to complete the assignment

Read for Monday

Read for class: Sherman (on Niihka) ,

Blackmon, and this.