EDGE

Empowering Game Design Education

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Unit 1: Transformative Game Design: Implementation Basics
This course explores foundational concepts and practices to consider when implementing analog role-playing games for transformative impacts.
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Overview: Transformative Game Design: Implementation Basics
Discussion Forum Instructions
Orientation Quiz
Sign up for Your Playtest and Feedback Group
Discussion 1: Basics of Scaling and Implementing Transformative RPGs
Discussion 2: Facilitating Role-playing Games
Unit 2: Implementing Applied Role-playing Games
In this unit, we will discuss considerations when implementing applied role-playing games for transformative purposes.
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Overview: Implementing Applied Role-playing Games
Discussion Forum Instructions
Playtest 1: Session 0
Discussion 3: Implementing Applied Role-playing Games
Unit 3: Implementing Therapeutic Role-playing Games
In this unit, we will discuss considerations when implementing leisure role-playing games for therapeutic purposes.
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Overview: Implementing Therapeutic Role-playing Games
Discussion Forum Instructions
Discussion 4: Implementing Therapeutic Role-playing Games
Reflection Journal 1: Facilitating Transformative Role-playing Games and You
Instructions for Major Assignment 1: Scaling Implementation Plan
Unit 4: Implementing Educational Role-playing Games
In this unit, we will discuss considerations when implementing role-playing games for educational purposes.
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Overview: Implementing Educational Role-playing Games
Discussion Forum Instructions
Discussion 5: Implementing Educational Role-playing Games
Playtest 2: Implementation of a Game for Transformative Impacts
Unit 5: Research and Implementation Specifics
In this unit, we will discuss specifics of different approaches to role-playing game research, as well as implementing role-playing games for educational purposes.
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Overview: Research and Implementation Specifics
Discussion Forum Instructions
Discussion 6: Researching During Implementation and Play
Discussion 7: Analyzing Effects Studies
Discussion 8: Implementation Cautionary Tales
Submission of Major Assignment 1: Scaling Implementation Plan
Discussion 9: Implementation Team Feedback Brainstorm
Unit 6: Player Immersion, Motivation, Identity, and Spiritual Development
In this unit, we will explore theories of immersion, motivation, and player relationship to character from the role-playing game discourse
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Overview: Player Immersion, Motivation, Identity, and Spiritual Development
Discussion Forum Instructions
Instructions for Major Assignment 2: Implementing Transformative Game Design
Playtest 3: Implementing a Game for Transformative Impacts
Discussion 10: Player Immersion and Motivation
Reflection Journal 2: Identity, Spiritual Development, and You
Unit 7: Player Skills and Interpersonal Relationship Dynamics
In this unit, we will discuss the labor involved in play, not only in implementation, but specifically on the part of players.
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Overview: Player Skills and Interpersonal Relationship Dynamics
Discussion Forum Instructions
Reflection Journal 3: Interpersonal and Social Transformation, Play, and You
Submission of First Complete Draft of Major Assignment 2: Implementing Transformative Game Design
Discussion 11: Player Skills
Peer Review Instructions for Major Assignment 2
Unit 8: Play Experiences and Documentation
In this unit, we will examine accounts of player experience and documentation.
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Overview: Player Experiences and Documentation
Discussion Forum Instructions
Discussion 12: Learning from Play Experiences
Reflection Journal 4: Play Experiences and You
Submission of Peer Reviews: Major Assignment 2
Unit 9: Implementing RPGs with Advanced Technologies
In this unit, you will learn about many of the newer technologies that have been developed recently and that will surely shape the future in important ways.
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Overview: Implementing RPGs with Advanced Technologies
Discussion Forum Instructions
Discussion 13: Implementing RPGs with Advanced Technologies
Unit 10: Implementing Transformative Game Design
In this unit, you will reflect upon the course as a whole, as well as your implementation design.
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Overview: Implementing Transformative Game Design
Discussion Forum Instructions
Reflection Journal 5: Implementing Transformative Game Design and You
Submission of Final Draft of Major Assignment 2: Implementing Transformative Game Design
Transformative Game Design 2

Reflection Journal 2: Identity, Spiritual Development, and You

Read Chapter 6 of Implementing sections 6.3-6.4 until the end of the section “e) Meditation and mindfulness” (pp. 322-340).

Optional: Choose one (1) item to examine under the Identity, Players, and Characters section of the Recommended Materials.

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Then, answer the following questions:

  1. Did any ideas within these sources resonate with your own experiences playing games, whether role-playing or otherwise?
    1. If so, please describe in detail.
    2. If not, why?
  2. Describe an aspect of your own identity as you understand it that you have explored through play, whether in this class or in other play experiences. 
    1. Has this exploration led to change in your identity or self-concept over time? If so, please describe. If not, why not?
    2. If you have never explored identity through play, why not? 
    3. Have you ever explored spirituality through play? Why or why not?
  3. How might a deeper understanding of identity, spiritual development, and play influence your facilitation of role-playing games? Be specific.
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