Games, Design and Play: Elements October 1, 2025 Identify the basic elements in a game of your choice (actions, goals, rules, objects, playspace, players). Game: Connect four Actions: Placing a puck Goals:…
P1: Introducing Serious Games October 1, 2025 I played Spent, which is authored by McKinney in collaboration with Urban Ministries of Durham. It is a game about the experience of living…
P1: Tiny playable prototype October 1, 2025 Observations During Game Players mentioned that for the career cards, it would be nice to have an indicator of whether or not you have…
P1: Tiny playable prototype notes October 1, 2025 “Worst is ambiguous”. We should have a stricter definition as well as a grading criteria. Also reframe the worst so b/c there’s a negative…
P1: Introducing Serious Games October 1, 2025 I chose to play the serious game Spent, which is by McKinney and Urban Ministries of Durham. Spent is a game about poverty. The…
P1 Heartland Prototype Notes October 1, 2025 At 2AM on a fine Wednesday morning, the Heartland team did a short playtest in the Mirrielees apartment with a group of three. Heartland is…
Influent P1 September 30, 2025 (Three Flip Studios; Designed by Rob Howland) What is it about? It’s a first person (kind of) sandbox game where you walk around someone’s…
Serious Games: Applying the MDAO Framework to EteRNA September 30, 2025 Introduction The game I played is EteRNA, developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University, with early leadership by Jeehyung Lee, Dr….
P1: Introducing Serious Games (Spent) – Krystal Li September 30, 2025 Spent is a serious game developed by the McKinney Agency for the Urban Ministries of Durham, that offers a unique perspective on poverty. The…
P1: Introducing Serious Games – Angela Mao September 30, 2025 The game I played was Spent, which was made by a collaboration between McKinney and Urban Ministries of Durham. It’s a game about poverty…
Introducing Serious Games (Spent) – ryloo September 30, 2025 I played Spent, a serious game developed for the Urban Ministries of Durham in North Carolina, which helps illustrate the difficulties of poverty, homelessness,…
Introducing Serious Games – leytht September 30, 2025 I played a game called Stop Disasters! and was created by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. This game is about creating…
Introducing Serious Games — Wingspan (amaru) September 30, 2025 I decided I’d analyze a game we played in class for this week’s assignment – Wingspan, designed by Elizabeth Hargrave. Wingspan, as we learned in class,…
