1. Image by Ulric Weck

2. TODAY:
1)Icebreaker
2)Before we start with readings:
what is a game?
3)McGonigal
4)Caillois
5)Juul
6)Our first analysis
7)Homework

3. Today’s Icebreaker:
Who is your favorite
video game character
and why?

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

6. McGonigal
For today you read a small piece
from McGonigal’s Reality is
Broken, which was the summer
reading for our first year
students.

7. Goal: specific outcome for player
Rules: limitations on how to
achieve goal
Feedback system: tells you how
close you are to goal
Voluntary participation:
you choose to
play.

8. Caillois
1. Free: you don’t have to play
2. Separate: basically magic circle
3.Uncertain: you don’t see where
it is going…
4.Unproductive: you don’t make stuff
5. Governed by rules
6. Make-believe

9. Juul
1. Rules
2. Variable and quantifiable
outcome
3. Valorization of outcome
4. Player effort
5. Player attached to outcome
6. Negotiable consequences

10. Our First Analysis
To the web for the
assignment!

11. An Activity
1.Form a group.
2.Look at our 3 definitions of
a game from the readings
3.Look at the analysis
assignment sheet
4.Craft a “game” rubric to
complete the assignment

12. Read for Monday
Read for class: Sherman
(on Niihka) ,
Blackmon, and this.