Clark Quinn

AUGUST 9, 2017

At the recent Realities 360 conference, I saw some confusion about the difference between a simulation and a game. Simulations. As I’ve mentioned, simulations are models of the world. You can also think about simulations as being in a ‘state’ (set of values in variables), and move to others by rules.

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Simulations Games Player Journal 116

Clark Quinn

JUNE 5, 2019

I’m suggesting that there’s a story that is the experience designed for the player. Instead, however, of the experiences being mediated by a computer interface, instead activities are inserted into the players experience. And the player is similarly sending messages as responses. Social media is carrying messages.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 28, 2015

Just so you don’t think I’m the only one saying it, in the decade since I wrote the book Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games , there have been a large variety of books on the topic. A simulation is just a model of the world, and it can be in any legal state and be taken to any other.

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Games Simulations Mentoring Engineering 100

Clark Quinn

APRIL 23, 2012

The player is involved in an abstraction of events, ideas, and reality.” It needs to be carefully planned, well designed, and undertaken with a careful balance of game, pedagogy, and simulation.” I very much like this statement, however: “The gamification of learning cannot be a random afterthought. ” Exactly!

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The ideal is a simulation-driven (aka model-driven or engine-driven) experience. There are a series of game problems in the same context, but whatever the player chooses, the right decision is ultimately made, leading to the next problem. And we can deliver this in a number of ways. Linear scenarios are a bit more complex.

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Simulations Games Engineering Problem 80

Clark Quinn

MAY 19, 2010

Apple allows cross-platform media players, whether hyperdocs (c.f. There will be situations where navigable content isn’t enough, and a company will want to provide interactivity, whether it’s a dynamic user order configuration tool, a diagnostic tool, or a learning simulation. Which Apple is blocking, for interactivity.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 12, 2018

The resulting game, had some specific design features: It was exploratory, in that the player had to wander around and try to survive. It was built upon a simple simulation engine, which supported replay. There were variables, like health and hunger and sleep that would get worse over time, driving action.

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