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Kutub Gandhi
@kksgandhi@hci.social
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I'm interested in building and researching games that teach philosophy — why read about the trolley problem when you can play it?
Download the proceedings here (https://playstorypress.org/books/meaningful-play-2024-proceedings/), or, if you're in a rush, I've written up a summary of the paper here (https://kksgandhi.github.io/personal_site/Insights_From_the_Development_of_an_Urban_Planning_Educational_Game.html).
One of the biggest challenges was having the learning goals emerge diegetically. Instead of spoon feeding learning outcomes, there were a ton of subtle tricks to get players to internalize and connect their in-game actions to effects within the in-game city, and then to further connect that system to the real world.
The Meaningful Play Proceedings are out, and the very first paper is my own! It details the 8 month process of building an urban planning education game — how I turned a prototype that players called "a well made slideshow" into an engaging and transformational game.
GodotCon inspired me to get my game playable on mobile! (https://kksgandhi.itch.io/other-peoples-money)
Godot is such a nice game engine (no, I am not in the pocket of big open-source)
Excited about Boston Game Dev Week! Today and tomorrow I'm at GodotCon; tomorrow evening I'll be at the Indie games showcase and the Flat Top Johnny meetup 😊
I just lost some critical study data! And then recovered it immediately. Please make data backups and save yourself some headache down the line.
Terrible (and funny) software licenses:
https://github.com/ErikMcClure/bad-licenses?tab=readme-ov-file
(The violence class was not, like many teased me, teaching students how to be violent — it was about the philosophy of violence, where the line is on self defense vs unjustified violence. The nonviolence class was about creating nonviolent political change.)
I recently taught two seminars for High Schoolers: One called "nonviolence", with 13 registered, and another called "violence"... 25 registered and more on the waitlist.
The difference in interest shouldn't be surprising, but I am a bit disappointed by people's priorities 😅