Playful Tutorials
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The document discusses game-based learning and tutorials. It advocates designing tutorials that blend into the overall gameplay experience rather than frontloading all instructions. Tutorials should use fewer words and hints, challenge the player with opponents and obstacles, and show visible progress through levels, achievements and leaderboards to keep players engaged. The experience should aim to elicit specific emotions like joy, inspiration and confidence through rich sensations, language, pacing and opportunities for reflection.
Playful Tutorials
- 1. Playful Tutorials GAME BASED LEARNING FOR BETTER TEACHING
- 2. What is a tutorial?
- 3. Are tutorials fun? "PEOPLE LOVE LEARNING ABOUT THINGS, BUT NOBODY ACTUALLY LIKES TO BE TAUGHT.“ TEDDY LEE, ROUGE LEGACY
- 6. Fun is overcoming challenge Solving puzzles Comprehension Mastery
- 8. The Four Freedoms of Play 1. Freedom to Experiment The player's motivations are entirely intrinsic and personal. The process is open-ended. 2. Freedom to Fail Losing is part of the process. 3. Freedom to Try on Different Identities Players aren't necessarily limited by their bodies or surrounding physical context. 4. Freedom of Effort As described in Peter and Iona Opie's classic ethnography of playground culture, children may scramble around in a game of tag, avoiding being caught for twenty minutes, and then suddenly stop and allow themselves to be tagged once they have reached a certain degree of effort or perhaps want to move on to another activity. Scot Osterweil (MIT Comparative Media Studies, Education Arcade Project)
- 9. Epic Story A SECRET TO A GREAT EXPERIENCE IS THE PROTAGONIST
- 11. Hero’s Journey 1. A character is in a zone of comfort 3. They enter an unfamiliar situation 3 Adapt to it 4. Get what they wanted 5. Pay a heavy price for it 6. Then return to their familiar situation 7. Having changed. 2. But they want something
- 12. User’s Journey 1. A USER is in a zone of comfort 3. They enter an unfamiliar situation 3 Struggle to get it 4. Initial success 5. Greater challenges 6. Then return to their regular life 7. Having changed. INTO A HERO 2. But they want something
- 13. Meet our hero WHAT DO THEY WANT?
- 14. Richard Bartle http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm Drawing: Frank Caron http://frankcaron.com
- 15. 4 Key Engagement Styles in Social Gaming Compete CollaborateExplore Express Amy Jo Kim amyjokim.com @amyjokim
- 17. Ambitious Reluctants Tutorials? Goal: I’m going to make something spectacular Motivation: “I’m an artist. Really” Conflict: I want to get making, not learning. Goal: Learn just enough Motivation: “I don’t want to look stupid” Conflict: You moved everything! It’s hard now! Who else? The Specialist? Goal: Motivation: Conflict: Goal: Motivation: Conflict:
- 18. 1. Clear Goals AND REGULAR CHECK POINTS. LEVELS AS CHAPTERS. LEVELS AS REWARDS.
- 19. Goals in games Outwit Solution Exploration Construction Forbidden act Rescue or Escape Alignment Race Chase Capture
- 22. Alignment: Dots & Bejeweled Match three or more
- 23. Forbidden Action: Fruit Ninja. Don’t hit the bomb.
- 25. Construction Farmville: Make Beautiful things
- 26. Solution World of Goo How high can you go without toppling.
- 28. Canva uses puzzles and construction, native to the app
- 33. In this clip from Indie Game: The Movie (http://www.indiegamethemovie.com/), Edmund McMillen, co-designer of Super Meat Boy, explains some key principles of game design.
- 36. OPPONENTS, OBSTACLES, DILEMMAS 2. CHALLENGE
- 39. Obstacles
- 40. Opponents
- 41. Dance Central To compete, you have to learn the moves
- 42. Dance Central They make the learning into a game too– if you can decode the picture, you can get a diamond and skip the practice
- 44. Progress
- 45. Progress
- 47. Celebrate microwins! Actions taken successfully create mini-rewards in the form of doobers (stars and slot-machine sounds).
- 48. Celebrating
- 50. Leaderboard s There is a certain satisfaction in kicking a friends bum. However, if you have a place where not much social is happening, be sure to motivate me by making me beat my own high score. Not feel lonely.
- 51. Leaderboards are used extensively to motivate behavior
- 52. But it can lead to abuse
- 53. Amazon handles it by retiring players. Digg got rid of their leaderboards
- 56. 3. Experience is Luscious RICH IN SENSATION, LANGUAGE, EMOTION
- 57. Interest Hook You are seduced from the first moment Republique
- 59. Design for An Emotion CONVERSION IS A CRAP NORTH STAR
- 61. AFFECTIONATE compassionate friendly loving open hearted sympathetic tender warm ENGAGED absorbed alert curious engrossed enchanted entranced fascinated interested intrigued involved spellbound stimulated CONFIDENT empowered open proud safe secure EXCITED amazed animated ardent aroused astonished dazzled eager energetic enthusiastic giddy invigorated lively passionate surprised vibrant HOPEFUL expectant encouraged optimistic GRATEFUL appreciative moved thankful touched INSPIRED amazed awed wonder JOYFUL amused delighted glad happy jubilant pleased tickled EXHILARATED blissful ecstatic elated enthralled exuberant radiant rapturous thrilled PEACEFUL calm clear headed comfortable centered content equanimous fulfilled mellow quiet relaxed relieved satisfied serene still tranquil trusting REFRESHED enlivened rejuvenated renewed rested restored revived AFFECTIONATE compassionate friendly loving open hearted sympathetic tender warm (c) 2005 by Center for Nonviolent Communication Website: www.cnvc.org
- 62. PEACE beauty communion ease harmony order
- 64. There is no shortage of “organization porn” on the web. We have a deep seated dream of a place of tidy harmony. There is big business in selling peace and order
- 65. AFFECTIONATE compassionate friendly loving open hearted sympathetic tender warm ENGAGED absorbed alert curious engrossed enchanted entranced fascinated interested intrigued involved spellbound stimulated h CONFIDENT empowered open proud safe secure EXCITED amazed animated ardent aroused astonished dazzled eager energetic enthusiastic giddy invigorated lively passionate surprised GRATEFUL appreciative moved thankful touched INSPIRED amazed awed wonder JOYFUL amused delighted glad happy jubilant pleased tickled EXHILARATED blissful ecstatic elated comfortable centered content equanimous fulfilled mellow quiet relaxed relieved satisfied serene still tranquil trusting REFRESHED enlivened rejuvenated renewed rested restored revived AFFECTIONATE compassionate friendly loving open hearted sympathetic tender warm radiant rapturous thrilled PEACEFUL calm clear headed HOPEFUL expectant encouraged optimistic compassionate friendly loving Until my players feel _____, I will not ship
- 68. Time Pacing – speed trials vs reflection Breaks – where can people pause Limits – forced breaks “out of Levels
- 69. Levels Can act as progress markers Can be like chapters- a place to stop Can be a warning of increased difficulty Can represent space and allow for unlocks and progressive reveals
- 70. Best Practices
- 71. Blend the tutorial into the experience
- 75. No Frontloading “If you frontload your tutorial and teach the player everything at the beginning, they’ll be overwhelmed with information and undersupplied with engagement.” Extra Credits in “Tutorials 101,”
- 78. Better to Do than Read
- 81. Use Fewer Words
- 87. No tutorial can fix bad design. AFFORDANCES ARE OUR FRIENDS.
- 88. Gamicad is a good example of gamification in action for teaching.
- 89. HOMEWORK Play Bastion http://supergiantgames.com/index. php/media/ How do these principles apply? 1. What Emotion(s) do you feel? 2.Who are the Player Types? 3.How did you learn to play? 4.How did they show progress?
- 90. Thank You WWW.ELEGANTHACK.COM WWW.BOXESANDARROWS.COM @CWODTKE Image form Bastion: great game! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bastion/id537773100?mt=8
- 91. Appendix
- 92. References Extra Credits: Tutorials 101 How I Got My Mom to Play Through Plants vs. Zombies Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us Game Design Deep Dive: How Rogue Legacy handles tutorials without being boring Rethinking Mobile Tutorials: Which Patterns Really Work? GamiCAD: A Gamified Tutorial System for First Time AutoCAD Users
- 95. Game/Play Types Race to the end Trading Evading Chasing Collection Building Destruction Survival Spatial Reasoning Prediction Territory Aquistion
- 97. 8 Kinds of fun Sensation Fantasy Narrative Challenge Fellowship Discovery Expression Submission 8 Kinds of Fun 8kindsoffun.com/
- 99. Plots The Quest Adventure Pursuit Rescue Escape Revenge Riddle/Mystery Rivalry Underdog Temptation Metamorphosis Transformation Maturation Love Forbidden Love Sacrifice Discovery Wretched Excess Ascension and Decension
- 100. Canva Walk through