Month: September 2025

I played Sweatshop, a monotonous clicker game where you are the owner of a sweatshop, seeking to maximize profit by hiring workers, buying materials,…

Title of Game: Spent Author: McKinney What it’s about: Spent is a game about the realities faced by low-income families in America. What kind(s)…

Citations Browning, H. (2016). Guidelines for designing effective games as clinical interventions: Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics, and Outcomes (MDAO) Framework. In Handbook of research on…

Reference Browning, H. (2016). Guidelines for designing effective games as clinical interventions: Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics, and Outcomes (MDAO) Framework. In Handbook of research on holistic…

I played “Stop Disasters!” by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the lead UN agency for the coordination of disaster risk…

Exercises 1. Identify the basic elements in a game of your choice (actions, goals, rules, objects, playspace, players). Let’s look at my favorite game, Valorant….

Exercises from Ch. 1 of Games, Design, and Play 1. Identify the basic elements in a game of your choice (actions, goals, rules, objects,…

Question #1 Game: Uno, the cards game Actions: Dealing cards, drawing cards, putting down valid cards by matching color/number/symbol, putting down action cards (Skip,…

CHESS. ACTION = moving a piece during your turn. GOAL = checkmate. RULES = how each piece can move, plus a few other elements…