Game On, Or Game Over? How to be a Policy Player

Hancock 2014 lecture by Vasiliki Bednar (@VassB)

Transcript

2. Trading Cards
3. Are you a player, or getting played?
4. Generation squeeze
7. •Policy player •A game •The game •Getting played
8. Games are a new frontier for productive, meaningful engagement
10. Games equipped to address policy issues b/c: 1. They are good at illustrating cause-and- effect; 2. They are good at illustrating constraints, conflicts, and trade-offs; 3. They engage the player by asking her to make a decision, and then showing the consequences of that decision, creating agency and responsibility 4. They can also simply tell stories, with the added element of player influence
12. Why games to satisfy the engagement gap? 1.Gateway 2.Orientation function 3.Make complex issues accessible 4.Framing function
16. Cross country canada
17. Fort mcmoney
18. Pipe trouble
19. Spent
20. Spent • *play
21. Win the white house
22. Mp for a week
23. Budget hero
24. Open north – citizen budget
25. Branches of power
26. Executive command
27. Energy city
28. What the frack?
29. World without oil
30. citizenville
32. •Playing as preparation: L.A.R.P. •Game theory •Not a gamer •Trivial, too silly •Only one way to play the game
35. •Why fun? •Motivates curiousity •Promotes pleasure •Invites sharing