Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The simplist of rewards, the game just tells the game player he or she did a good job. This is a common method of rewarding a player for an accomplishment. The player does something she was supposed to do and is provided with points for the effort. It also deeply taps into a players need for autonomy. Types of Rewards.

Games 205

Games Player Score Music 205

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Whether you give your players immediate or delayed feedback depends on how you want them to use the information and the type of information you are giving. Immediate feedback is also important when the player is getting information about a changing game state that they must rapidly respond to. Do you want the player to self-correct?

Games 196

Games Player Simulations Evalution 196

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Players who favor a performance orientation are concerned with other people’s assessment of their competence. Players who have a mastery orientation are concerned more with improving their proficiency. When given mastery goals players will have higher self-efficacy and utilize more effective strategies. References. [1]

Gamification 199

Gamification Player Ratio Performance Support 199

Kapp Notes

JULY 24, 2014

In that game, players first work together to build an overly complex and complicated mouse trap by landing on “build” spaces and creating part of the trap. In this electronic game, players are able to build all types of things out of textured cubes in a 3D world. The player also has the ability to build roller coasters.

Games 180

Games Player Maslow eLearning Guild 180

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 22, 2013

For example, in a game designed to teach negotiation skills, a player might first be given advice on how to negotiate and then given a small negotiation task. A teaching game helps the player to adjust behavior or attitude based on the input they are receiving from the game environment and players in the game.

Games 267

Games Teach Player Learning Objects 267

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 11, 2014

In a video game the player has real-time feedback on progress toward goal, amount of life or energy left, location, time remaining, how much stuff they have in inventory, and even how other players are doing. Feedback in games and in gamification is almost constant. Another form of feedback provides guidance.

Games 269

Games Player Gamification Flash 269

Kapp Notes

APRIL 15, 2013

There is a defined “game-space” in which the players agree to engage in game activities. The players know when they or someone else has completed the game. Games contain challenges, a mechanism for multiple attempts, some type of reward system, a clear goal that players work to achieve and an ultimate end.

Gamification 277

Gamification Games Player Association 277

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Let’s contrast Measurement and Completion achievements, which describe two distinct conditions under which we reward players for their actions. Measurement achievements are given to players for completing a task to a certain degree. A measurement achievement can be likened to feedback because it is evaluative in nature.

Gamification 187

Gamification Player Journal Games 187

Kapp Notes

MARCH 11, 2014

Replayability or the “do over” gives the player permission to fail. Allowing a player to fail with minimal consequences encourages exploration, curiosity and discovery. Players enjoy failures in a game or, at least, use them to progress. In games, failure is an option. And it’s a good one. It encourages engagement.

Games 191

Games Video Player Gamification 191

Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The elements are rules, goals and clear outcomes, feedback and rewards, problem solving, players, safe environment, and sense of mastery. Juul (2003) identified six elements which include rules, variable quantifiable outcome, player effort, valorization of the outcome, attachment of the player to the outcome, and negotiable consequences.

Gamification 232

Gamification Instructional Instruction Player 232

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Instead of multple choice, here are a few alternatives: Completion Assessment -Did the player complete the level in the game? In-Process Assessment – How did the player choose his or her actions? Point Assessment -Did the player score enough points to be considered successful? How long did it take? How many attempts?

Assessment 277

Assessment Games Ideas Learner 277

Kapp Notes

MARCH 4, 2011

Even player driven games like Eve Online have hundreds of underlying stories which have been created by the players themselves. The combination of a video game and storytelling provides an interactive story which engages and moves the player forward. Games can provide a visual and narrative context for player performance.

Games 269

Games Instructional Instruction Player 269

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Strategy games like Civilization V contain maps to help players continually orient themselves to where they are and where they need to go. Additionally, the map give a sense of progress and a sense of what still needs to be accomplished. Game maps are an integral part of a learning game and need to be considered carefully.

Games 145

Games Player Integrate Design 145

Kapp Notes

APRIL 25, 2011

So the definition of a game is “ a system in which players engage in an artificial challenge, defined by rules, that result n a quantifiable outcome. ” Players -Games involve a person interacting with the content of the game as in a first person shooter or with other players as in multiple player games.

Games 243

Games Player Score Gamification 243

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 18, 2015

How do you avoid a player becoming so far behind in a game that they feel they are going to lose half-way into the game but skirt around the fact that if a player finds the “magic jewel” in her first turn she we most certainly win? No game is truly perfectly balanced — even in chess, one player gets to go first.

Games 100

Games Player Instructional Instruction 100

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The search for gold coins, for example, encourages the player to explore the environment and learn more about the game-space in which they are playing. When you see a master warlock with all his robes, crowns and staff, you know that player has achieved the highest level possible in the game.

Games 192

Games Providers Player Develop 192

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

This can be artificial feedback like a health meter or a message on the screen or it can be more authentic like the reaction of a non-player characters. need to provide feedback to the players and obvious reaction to a learner action. Keep what the player needs to press to a minim. Are they doing the right thing?

Games 194

Games Player Press Learning 194

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 8, 2013

When playing a game, inevitably, players become curious—what happens if I go over to this place or explore this room. Game players explore gamespaces to see what happens. A sense of suspense, mystery and intrigue draws people into games, movies and novels…but rarely learning events. What if I run into the open?

Learner 211

Learner Learning Objects Player Movie 211

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 28, 2014

This can be artificial feedback like a health meter or a message on the screen or it can be more authentic like the reaction of a non-player characters. need to provide feedback to the players and obvious reaction to a learner action. Keep what the player needs to press to a minim. Are they doing the right thing?

Games 165

Games Player Press Tutorial 165

Kapp Notes

MARCH 17, 2011

In a video game the player has real-time feedback on progress toward goal, amount of life or energy left, location, time remaining, how much stuff they have in inventory and even how other players are doing. In fact, often a screen or a player will flash to indicate they are in danger of being eliminated with the next wrong move.

Games 224

Games Video Player Delicious 224

Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Here is a great and wonderful story about kids helping other kids, it is great how they all rallied around the one player. We can all learn a lesson from these football players.' Certainly a much better football story than the stupidity around Richie Incognito. Kids sometimes are wonderful just for their perspective on life.

Player 150

Player Lesson Help Learning 150

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 26, 2013

Second, research strongly indicates that what makes an interactive learning experience effective for learning is the level of activity of the players as they participate in the activity. Create opportunities for the players to be interactive with the content of the interactive learning event and with each other.

Simulations 181

Simulations Interactive Create Player 181

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 12, 2012

…some authors define gamification as A) a process of market expansion, which transforms non-players in players (or non-gamers in gamers) and non-games in games. According to others, gamification is B) the expansion of a ludic property, the so-called pointsification, toward non-ludic contexts.

Gamification 279

Gamification Journal Toys Player 279

Kapp Notes

JUNE 29, 2011

The player is involved in an abstraction of events, ideas and reality. First, it helps the player manage the conceptual space being experienced. In other words, it helps the player understand what is going on within the game. Few games force a player to stop all activity and get a haircut or go to the dentist.

Games 199

Games Player Quality System 199

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2013

When a player first enters a game, he or she takes action, moves in a certain direction or makes a choice. The player is constantly thinking, they don’t know what is going to happen next, they are filled with both excitement and uncertainty. A player must do something, they must take action or fail immediately.

Compliance Training 226

Compliance Training Player Module Games 226

Kapp Notes

MARCH 7, 2011

Developing a game in which a player wanders through one vast level accomplishing hundreds of objectives and interacting with dozens of non-player characters is a daunting programming task and is intimidating for the player. To overcome these problems, game developers add levels to games.

Games 173

Games Player Wikipedia Problem 173

Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Games induce players to create their own worlds, to participate in social activities, to form effective teams, to reason and to save lives [51]. Gaming puts the player in control, gives clear, immediate feedback on progress, and offers progressively more challenging levels of achievement that a player reaches at his or her own pace.

Games 272

Games Video Journal Brain 272

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

What does the learner/player need to know to achieve the outcome of the game? In what context should the learner/player be able to apply the skills? – Here are three more questions you need to consider. What are the instructional objectives of the game? What knowledge? What skills? What behavior? ?What Answer questions. In a store?

Games 185

Games Simulations Create Player 185

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

The most obvious is to use time as a motivator for player activity and action. Players no longer loiter, leisurely explore an area or wait to see what happens next. Players no longer loiter, leisurely explore an area or wait to see what happens next. In a video game, those months can be compressed into minutes.

Games 170

Games Instructional Instruction Player 170

Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Games use a combination of entertainment and active learning principles to immerse players in learning environment (Bruner, 1962; Piaget, 1951; Malone, 1981; Csikszentmihalyi, 1990). Players assume persona of an avatar to accomplish missions. Good video games capture players through identify.

Simulations 219

Simulations Games Player Theory 219

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 30, 2011

One: Challenge and Consolidation – Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and then let them solve these problems until they have virtually routinized or automated their solutions. Players conduct those activities again and again and, if designed correctly, they don’t mind.

Cognitive 172

Cognitive Games Benefits Player 172

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Good video games capture players through identify. Players either inherit a strongly formed and appealing character or they get to build a character from the ground up. Players become committed to the new virtual world in which they will learn and act. Players actually use failure as way of finding out information with the game.

Games 181

Games Cognitive Player Newsletter 181

Kapp Notes

MAY 17, 2011

“A game is a system in which players engage in an abstract challenge, defined by rules, interactivity and feedback that results in a quantifiable outcome often eliciting an emotional reaction.” Players— Games involve a person interacting with game content. Later we’ll refer to the players of games as “learners.”

Games 160

Games Player Score Interactive 160

Kapp Notes

MAY 19, 2011

The replay button or do over gives the player permission to fail. Allowing a player to fail with minimal consequences encourages exploration, curiosity and discovery based learning. Players enjoy failures in a game or, at least, use them to progress. In games, failure is an option. And it’s a good one.

Player 157

Player Games Lesson Video 157

Kapp Notes

APRIL 29, 2013

In this experience, the players are actually predicting protein sequences and players have designed new vaccines from the new and unique ways they’ve folded protein. This gamified process was developed to allow non-scientist to work on the incredibly difficult task of folding proteins into 3D structures.

Gamification 235

Gamification Compliance Training Player Open Source 235

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 14, 2015

Bartle’s player types identified four types of game players, killers-who want to destroy, achievers-who want to win, explorers-who want to check out an environment and socializers–who play games to meet and interact with others. Games tap into innovative thinking, creativity and our need to explore.

Games 100

Games Player Gamification Environment 100

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 29, 2011

Civilization V is a turn based strategy game where players attempt to lead a civilization from prehistoric times into the future on a procedurally-generated map, achieving one of a number of different victory conditions through research, diplomacy, expansion, economic development, government and military conquest.

Strategy 164

Strategy Teach Player Diversity Training 164