Things are going to be quieter for a while as I am busy teaching my game design class, running the UNSW Game Deconstruction Group and trying to do some non-game research on the side.
Books: What Video Games Have To Teach Us About Learning And Literacy
While this is indisputably a book about game design, it is not a book for game designers or even for gamers. At least not expressly so. Gee, a professor of linguistics, psychology and education, is writing for teachers and education theorists, describing the many learning principles (36 in all) that can be found in modern video games — and are often lacking, he claims, in our schools. So while in a sense the book is telling designers what they are already doing well, it is valuable to have this implicit wisdom analysed and set out as a set of explicit principles.
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