DEFINITION

Symbols

<aside> 🔠 Language

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• Intelligence = Experience framed by language. We need to teach players the words to identify the problems which we critic and the solutions which we hail.

<aside> 🧗🏿‍♀️ Experiences

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• Don't only tell, show ! Place the players in situations which are thematically relevant so that they can learn the vocabulary which we taught them.

<aside> ☯️ Visual symbols

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• Visuals are a form of language too which act on the subconscious (shapes, colors...)
• Some symbols have heavy conotations on the conscious mind as well (crosses, yin-yang...)

Ludo-Narrative Resonance

<aside> 🎥 Authored (teaching) scenes

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• Teach with dialogs, cinematics, events...

<aside> 🧗🏿‍♀️ Emergent (learning) play

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• Learn through game systems, quests...

<aside> 💓 Make it emotionally relatable

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• The fantasy of a character should stem from an emotion that the author can feel. E.g: the desire to be a messiah / a terrorist / to prove yourself right.
  • If the author can’t feel a connection, the audience won’t either. So if you can’t feel a resonance with a character, find something that can make it so.

DESIGN PROCESS

PROCESSES

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