Written Notes
Digital Notes
Definition of Fun
- Fun is learning
- Boils down to scientific method, neuroscience
- Kids found Sim City fun but not learning anything– they expressed a thirst for learning
- 7 universal emotions, but where’s fun?
- Fun isn’t one emotion but a sequence or a process of emotions
Sophia Games
- Sophia: the game-learn emotion– fun = the cognitive mechanical process by which we convert fear into happiness through surprise
- Sophia games: connection to real world, creating order in confusing space, creates fulfilling feeling of mastery & understanding ultimately
- Meaningful games: applies to the real world — bridges gap between game model & real world model
- Each action creates an emotion
- When we make learning games, we know the effect we want to achieve, but the trick is finding the emotion
- Alleviates suffering, confusion, feeling dumb, socially ineffective & encourages clarity, structure, wittiness, charisma
- Sophia can be a lens with which we view games
