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Trading Cards

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Are you a player, or getting played?

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Generation squeeze

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•Policy player •A game •The game •Getting played

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Games are a new frontier for productive, meaningful engagement

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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

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Why games to satisfy the engagement gap? 1.Gateway 2.Orientation function 3.Make complex issues accessible 4.Framing function

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Cross country canada

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Fort mcmoney

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Pipe trouble

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Spent

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Spent • *play

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Win the white house

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Mp for a week

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Budget hero

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Open north – citizen budget

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Branches of power

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Executive command

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Energy city

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What the frack?

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World without oil

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citizenville

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•Playing as preparation: L.A.R.P. •Game theory •Not a gamer •Trivial, too silly •Only one way to play the game

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•Why fun? •Motivates curiousity •Promotes pleasure •Invites sharing

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