{"id":12716,"date":"2025-03-27T10:42:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=12716"},"modified":"2025-04-02T21:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T01:49:24","slug":"week-7-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=12716","title":{"rendered":"Week 7 Response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Read:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.learntechlib.org\/author\/Brian+Winn\">Brian Winn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.learntechlib.org\/author\/Carrie+Heeter\">Carrie Heeter<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.learntechlib.org\/p\/104284\/\">Resolving Conflicts in Educational Game Design through Playtesting<\/a>\u201c<em>\u00a0Innovate: Journal of Online Education<\/em>\u00a0Volume 3,\u00a0Number 2,\u00a0December 2006<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What are the challenges a team faces when working on an educational game?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Balancing the content with being fun but also educational, differing team goals, and the occasional communication errors with your team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the case study team members vetoed each others game ideas, what were the scientist\u2019s, pedagogy expert\u2019s and designer\u2019s issues?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Concerns over scientific accuracy, concerns with educational effectiveness, and the enjoyment of the game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What did the team learn from play testing their prototypes?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>They identified the issues of the game, gained insight on player engagement, and definitely improved game mechanics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How does play testing resolve conflicts among team members?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It can provide objective feedback, helps the team align their goals, and it helps to reduce misunderstandings by showing what is and isn&#8217;t working. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balancing the content with being fun but also educational, differing team goals, and the occasional communication errors with your team. Concerns over scientific accuracy, concerns with educational effectiveness, and the enjoyment of the game. They identified the issues of the game, gained insight on player engagement, and definitely improved game mechanics. It can provide objective &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=12716\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week 7 Response&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,142],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-12716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design-studio-2","category-reading-response-game-design-studio-2","tag-marked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12717,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12716\/revisions\/12717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}