Yesterday public history students warmed up for designing their first game by playing Viking Funeral, a card game by designer Rob Daviau. We've been using Daviau's interview on Edx and Game Designer Round Table in class.
This gave us a nice way to discuss game mechanics and, perhaps more importantly, to begin thinking and talking about how we can use them in an educational context and apply them to our work with the Civil War. Plus, we had fun (or at least as much fun as we can have in a class). Thursday the students pitch their ideas for a card game.
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