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DGD 512 Educational Game Design

Spring 2012
Mondays 5:45- 8:25pm
HH 205/6 Game Lab


Professor Elena Bertozzi


Humanities Hall 103 ♠ email: elena.bertozzi@liu.edu ♣ office phone: 515.299.2250 ♥ OH: M-W 1:00- 2:15, 4-5:40 ♦

Course Description

Although most games are designed for purposes of pure entertainment, increasingly games are designed for educational ends as well. This includes the design of games for school curricula, games for social and political activism, and games for training purposes. How is the fun of a game balanced with its educational needs? What are the best topics and subjects for educational games to take on? How exactly do games teach their players? This course will look at the challenges of creating educational games through the creation and analysis of actual games. We will also continue working on understanding/building interactive work deliverable over the web with HTML5

Course Objectives

Students will learn how to:
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