ARG Academy on P2PU Day 3 Session Designing an ARG http://p2pu.org/en/groups/arg-academy/ #ARGed

1. DESIGNING AN
ARG

3. How to frame it!
 Epistemic Games
 A game where an epistemic frame is set
that requires the student to act as a
member of the professional community.
They are expected to use the
vocabulary, jargon, and act as if a
member of this community

5. How to frame it!
 Jim Gee
 Knowledge takes on a different life when
students use this knowledge in a
coherent practice such as a game rather
than a traditional test or paper
assignment
 Lave & Wenger
 Community of Practice

6. How to frame it!
Keller’s ARCs Motivation Model of
Instructional Design
 Attention
 Relevance
 Confidence
 Success

7. Examples to reference
 Epistemic games
http://www.innovateonline.info/pdf/vol1_issue6/Epistemic_Games.pdf
 Ecomuve http://ecomuve.gse.harvard.edu/
 HARPS projects
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=harp&pageid=icb.page69587
 Mentira http://www.mentira.org/
 Place Based Learning http://website.education.wisc.edu/kdsquire/tenure-
files/16-squire-shelton-book.pdf
 7 Things You Should Know about Alternate Reality Games
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7045.pdf

8. Games-based Learning
Research
 Aldridge
 Prensky
 Jenkins
 Gee

9. Lesson plan or Instructor notes
 Unit Goals
 Learning Objectives
 Objectives & Standards from your Common
Course Curriculum
 Technology requirements
 Field trip permissions
 Accessibility

10. Basics
 Subject
 Students
 Purpose
 What do you want them to learn? Skills or
knowledge?
 What is the conflict/challenge?

11. Okay, so now different types of
games
 Augmented Reality Game
 Augmented Reality Simulation
 Pervasive Game
 Location-Based Game
 Murder Mystery

12. Differences
 Fiction
 Interactive Narrative – player actions change the
game
 Puppetmaster
 Claim to be real
 Alter the World…don’t step into the Magic Circle
 TINAG
 Transmedia
 Movement

13. ARG Design
 Narrative
 NPC/Pedagogical Agents
 Game Design
 Challenges
 Transmedia
 Tech Tools

14. Game Design for ARGs
 Story driven
 Pieces distributed in multiple places
 Layers
 Problem solving
 Hard and soft scaffolding
 Hard fun
 Incomplete Information

15. Rabbithole
 Structure the Door
 Door for students/educators
 First artifact that draws the player in……..
instead may be the first bit of information
 Immersion

17. Activity
 Concept……..
 Subject ……….
 Purpose……..
 Door/Rabbithole………….

18. Qualitative Factors for Game
Play (Malone, 1981)
 Challenge
 Curiosity
 Fantasy (Fiction)
 Flow

19. Kellers’ ARCS Model
 Attention
 Relevance
 Competence
 Satisfaction

20. CONSTRUCTIVISM & CONNECTIVISM
FIERO & FLOW

21. Challenges
 Flow/Fiero
 Solving a puzzle
 Picking up clues to a mystery
 Dealing with a character

22. Interactive Narrative
 Keep designing while playing
 Storyboard – the narrative
 Flowchart the action –
clues, puzzles, character interactions

23. Challenge
 Puzzle
 Mathematical Formula
 Message to Decipher
 Problem to Solve