Games & Gamification

Announcements

• Underground Sound
• Project Vision Documents due next week
• NJSM study session sign up doodle coming next week

Vision Documents

Let’s go around the room and review your Vision Documents.

Scavenger Hunts

• NJSM Presidential Scavenger Hunt
• NJSM Shelter, Water, Fire & Food Scavenger Hunt
• NJSM Map

Exercise

IMM WordPress QR Code Scavenger Hunt

• Divide into groups of 2 or so representing four tracks at IMM (e.g. music, games/programming, video/animation, and physical computing/digital fabrication)
• Log into the class blog using your team account and create a post for each room in AIMM that’s significant for your IMM track
• Create a category for your track and assign all your posts to that category
• Go to http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ and create QR Codes for each of your posts
• Print, cut out & place QRCodes around the AIMM building at your chosen track locations
• Fire up your QRCode Reader and take your creation for a test drive
• How could you tweak it to make it better?

Games & Gamification

What is Gamification?

• Basic Gamification – Content Gamification vs. Structural Gamification
• Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivation

Examples

• NJSM Pretty Big Things Scavenger Hunt
• The NJSM Scramble Scavenger Hunt
• Princeton University Art Museum Self Guided Family Activities
• The Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel ANS Explore! App
• Helen’s Treasures
• Edventure Builder

Game Elements

Rock Paper Scissors – what are the game elements in Rock-Paper-Scissors?

• Space: ?
• Components: ?
• Mechanics: ?
• Rules: ?

Other Elements

(Which type of motivation do they leverage? Intrinsic or extrinsic?)

• Points
• Progress Bars
• Leader Boards
• Levels
• Badges

Badges

• Open Badges
• Credly
• BadgeOS

EXERCISE

Let’s earn our first OpenBadges:

• Head over to OpenBadges to set up your backpack
• Now work through the OpenBadges Quickstart example
• Now take a look at some of the other organizations using OpenBadges
• Consider the NJSM map linked to above
• On paper, come up with a structural gamification badging system that would motivate school kids to visit all the exhibition spaces over the course of a semester. Think about how you could use badges, levels and progress bars to motivate them.

ISSUING OPENBADGES

How to Issue OpenBadges

Progress Bars

EXERCISE

Let’s build a progress bar using Bootstrap, JQuery & HTML5 Local Storage:

• Head over to Github to download the code from the progressbar-demo repo
• See it in action here

Assignment

Vision Document

• Refine your Vision Document based on today’s discussion
• Post your Vision Document to Canvas and come prepared to present your Vision Document in class next week