In this section, there is one area that I believe that everyone needs to review and know because the three challenges of collaborative gaming are important to know and to highly consider when creating your e Learning Collaborative Game.
NOTE: THIS IS A QUOTE FROM OUR LESSON.
Three Challenges of Collaborative Gaming;
- "To avoid the game degenerating into one player making the decisions for the team, collaborative games have to provide a sufficient rationale for collaboration. One technique used to avoid this pitfall is to give the players different roles and abilities so that optimal game-play depends on good coordination and decision making on the part of the players. Another technique is to make the problem sufficiently difficult so the players need to work together to solve it.
- For a game to be engaging, players need to care about the outcome and that outcome should have a satisfying result. If players do not care about the outcome, then they are not motivated enough to help each other or improve on their performance. If players find the outcome to be unsatisfying (either boring or random), they are unlikely to learn anything, understand the consequences of their actions, or want to play it again. Games require a good narrative and flow to be entertaining to the players.
- For a collaborative game to be enjoyable multiple times, the experience needs to be different each time and the presented challenge needs to evolve. People learn skills through practice. To put in more practice time, they need to be able to repeatedly play the game."
