Intro to Gameful Design (SchoolKeep)

Intro to Gameful Design (SchoolKeep)
FREE course that explores the relationship between software design and game design.

Interaction designers sometimes pay lip service to cheap trends like gamification, but rarely have they sat to analyze the deeper psychological and philosophical aspects of game design. Similarly, there is often a gap in formal design thinking practices and research on the game side, because the indie game movement invites so many first-time designers to try and build their own game. This course examines the opportunities these two worlds have to teach other each about effective design.

This course started as a hunch I had years ago while designing software for large companies, but has been fundamentally shaped by experts and designers in both large and small game companies across the globe.