Presentation used during the first Gamedenken Meetup at the Dutch Game Garden in Utrecht.

1. Gamedenken
Max Laane | 26-3-2014 | max@setup.nl

2. What are we going to do?
18:45 Play!
19:15 Introduction
19:45 Gamestorm
20:15 Pitches
20:30 Paper Prototyping
21:15 Drinks and Playtime

3. Gamedenken
Max Laane | 26-3-2014 | max@setup.nl

4. What is Gamedenken?
Gamification+

5. Gamification?
Put simply:
Using game design elements in non-game
contexts.

7. Piano Stairs

8. Xbox One Rep

9. Gamification?
Ambiguous explanations.
‘Just add points’ thinking
Marketing? Behavioural Science?
Psychology? Making way for play in the
workplace?
Ask Sebastian
and Ian later

10. Serious Games?
Games that have a different goal than
entertainment, e.g. simulations of
work processes, math games.

11. Burgemeester game

12. Red Cat Mathgame

13. Gamification Revisited
Sebastian Deterding
“Gamification is a terrible word to
use!”
Ian Bogost
“Gamification is bullshit!”
http://www.slideshare.net/dings/95-theses-on-the-power-and-efficacy-of-gamification#

14. Gameful Design?
McGonigal: “Gameful as in Playful”
Intrinsic rather than (Gamification) extrinsic
motivation

15. Gamification?
Put simply:
Using game design elements in non-game
contexts.

16. Our instrument:
Gamestorm
Game Jam with non-game related situations.
Reality is Broken, how are we going to fix it?
Gamestorm + Paper Prototyping

17. Thinking as a designer
1. Autonomy
2.
3.

18. Thinking as a designer
1. Autonomy
2. Safe
3.

19. Thinking as a designer
1. Autonomy
2. Safe
3. Feedback

20. Thinking as a designer
1. Autonomy
2. Safe
3. Feedback
4. Fun

21. Thinking as a designer
1. Autonomy
2. Safe
3. Feedback
4. Fun
and
5. Flow

22. Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

23. What do you think?
Which game mechanics work?

24. What do we want?
Feedback on Gamedenken
and eventually…

25. Gamedenk Community
People who actively:
- Implement playful interactions in everyday
life
- Think critically about the use of Gamification
- Seek the boundaries of gamefulness
- Invent instruments to make gameful designs
of everything

26. Our instrument:
Gamestorm
Game Jam with non-game related situations.
Reality is Broken, how are we going to fix it?
Gamestorm + Paper Prototyping

27. Gamestorm
2 rounds in 30 minutes!

28. 1st round
10 minutes of reading and making a game
20 minutes of working out the concept

29. EXAMPLES

30. EXAMPLES

31. Choose Your Mission!
OR create your own and pitch it!

32. GO!
Your 30 minutes start NOW!

33. Paper Prototyping
First Design
Quick & Dirty
For Testing

34. Present and Play
1. Present your game/gamified situation and
play each other’s games.
2. Give feedback to each other and ask
questions!

35. Last rounds
Which prototype was awesome, and why?

36. “Next time Gadget!”
Themes
ZZP/Healthcare/MKB/New Tech/Rage
Quit/Consoles/Gamification is
Bad/Gamification is Good/Best
Practices/Worst Failures/What do you
do?/Game Mechanics/Psychology/
Marketing/Instruments/Ludification/…?

37. “Next time Gadget!”
Thoughts?
Did you like this Meetup?
Do you want more?
How often do you want this?
What do you want with Gamedenken?

38. Thank You and Drinks!
Any questions?
Suggestions?
Shoot me! or mail me
at max@setup.nl