Designing an ARG slideshow for Games MOOC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMvoAFMHH_4&feature=plcp

1. DESIGNING AN
ARG

3. How to frame it!
 EpistemicGames
 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
 HARPS projects htt
 Mentira
 Place Based Learning
 7ThingsYou Should Know about Alternate
Reality Games

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

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

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

11. Elements that May Be Different
 Interactive Narrative
 Pplayer actions change the game
 Puppetmaster
 Claim to be real
 Alter theWorld…don’t step into the Magic
Circle
 TINAG
 Transmedia
 Movement

12. ARG Design
 Narrative
 NPC/PedagogicalAgents
 Game Design
 Challenges
 Transmedia
 TechTools

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

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

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

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

18. FIERO & FLOW
CONSTRUCTIVISM & CONNECTIVISM

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

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

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

23. EDISON V. TESLA THEME

24. RABBITHOLE

25. ARG PRIME
ALTERNATE REALITY GAME

26. ARG Prime
 Gmail
 YouTube
 Wordpress
 Tagwhat
 Logins and Accounts

27. PUPPETMASTER

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

31. CURTAIN

32. TINAG