Sunday, October 7, 2007

Gaming literacies: a game design study in action

In our New Literacies class, we did not discuss gaming literacy. This article overviews the pedagogy and development process of Gamestar Mechanic, an RPG (Role Playing Game) style online game designed to teach players the fundamentals of game design. This article states that designing digital games—(being a game designer) gives a platform on which to build technical, technological, artistic, cognitive, social, and linguistic skills suitable for our current and future world.
Read the article at:

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Gaming+literacies:+a+game+design+study+in+action.-a0167294848

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