Transformative Game Design 1

About Course

Welcome to Transformative Game Design 1! We are delighted that you are joining us on this journey into exploring design principles involved when creating role-playing games as vehicles for personal and social change. This course explores specific concepts and practices to consider when designing for transformative impacts.

Course Content

Course Information
This course explores specific concepts and practices to consider when designing for transformative impacts.

Unit 1: Role-playing Game Design Basics
This course explores foundational concepts and practices to consider when designing analog role-playing games for transformative impacts.

Unit 2: Transformative Leisure Role-playing Game Design
These types of games are not necessarily played for an educational or therapeutic purpose, but they can be designed with specific goals in mind and players might find them transformative in a variety of different ways.

Unit 3: Therapeutic Role-playing Game Design
These types of games are designed for a therapeutic purpose or to help participants develop social skills.

Unit 4: Educational Role-playing Game Design
These types of games are designed for an educational purpose according to specific learning objectives, such as curricular materials or helping participants develop social skills.

Unit 5: Research and Design Specifics
We will discuss ways to design and iterate role-playing games, but also how to take that process a step further.

Unit 6: Styles and Cultures of Design
As we have discussed before, role-playing games emerge from specific design and play communities.

Unit 7: Ritual, Symbolism, and Culture in Game Design
In this Unit, we will deepen into specific practices for designing rituals, narratives, and symbolism in role-playing games.

Unit 8: Role-playing Game Design and Conflict
As with our first class, this unit will cover both conflicts surrounding certain facets of game design within gaming communities.

Unit 9: Representation and Tech Ethics in RPG Design
In this unit, we will primarily focus on the way disabilities are represented in role-playing game design.

Unit 10: Framing Transformative Game Design
Welcome to our last unit on your reflections and analysis of the transformative game design process.

About Course

Course Content

Course Information This course explores specific concepts and practices to consider when designing for transformative impacts.

Unit 1: Role-playing Game Design Basics This course explores foundational concepts and practices to consider when designing analog role-playing games for transformative impacts.

Unit 2: Transformative Leisure Role-playing Game Design These types of games are not necessarily played for an educational or therapeutic purpose, but they can be designed with specific goals in mind and players might find them transformative in a variety of different ways.

Unit 3: Therapeutic Role-playing Game Design These types of games are designed for a therapeutic purpose or to help participants develop social skills.

Unit 4: Educational Role-playing Game Design These types of games are designed for an educational purpose according to specific learning objectives, such as curricular materials or helping participants develop social skills.

Unit 5: Research and Design Specifics We will discuss ways to design and iterate role-playing games, but also how to take that process a step further.

Unit 6: Styles and Cultures of Design As we have discussed before, role-playing games emerge from specific design and play communities.

Unit 7: Ritual, Symbolism, and Culture in Game Design In this Unit, we will deepen into specific practices for designing rituals, narratives, and symbolism in role-playing games.

Unit 8: Role-playing Game Design and Conflict As with our first class, this unit will cover both conflicts surrounding certain facets of game design within gaming communities.

Unit 9: Representation and Tech Ethics in RPG Design In this unit, we will primarily focus on the way disabilities are represented in role-playing game design.

Unit 10: Framing Transformative Game Design Welcome to our last unit on your reflections and analysis of the transformative game design process.