Open Lab[ribbon]
Pietro Polsinelli with two friends wrote a book in Italian on applied games for Franco Angeli publisher: “My part of the book is a sort of beta version of Explaining With Games from a less experienced self.”. Sorry this is only in Italian.
Games can be designed to teach and facilitate learning processes. This book is focused on teaching you on how to contribute creating such games. There are several good books and game design and programming, but I found none on the craftsmanship required to create games for teaching non trivial themes. So I wrote this.
The bulk of the book proceeds by example. We will always be designing or analyzing a specific applied game, starting from the sample game Help Arti.