Guest Lecture by Prof. Richard Bartle
"Game Skills and Simulation Skills: Fiction, Physics, Gameplay and Learning"
26.04.2016 at 18:00
The Munich Center of the Learning Sciences proudly presents the guest lecture:
Game Skills and Simulation Skills: Fiction, Physics, Gameplay and Learning held by Prof. Dr. Richard Bartle
On April 26th 2016, from 18.00 – 19.00
in Leopoldstrasse 13, Fakultät für Psychologie und Pädagogik - LMU München, Room 2402
Abstract
People often confuse what people learn from games with what they learn from either the game’s fiction (i.e. the symbols attached to game elements) or from its physics (i.e. the similarity of its world’s behaviour with that of reality). They rarely look at what gameplay offers. Fiction can be bettered covered in novels; physics by gameplayfree
simulations. Gameplay concerns high-order problem-solving (including of social problems), and it’s here where people should be looking for the effects of games.