Part of my job as a research assistant for the P4Games project is to assist with putting together a human game design curriculum. I’ve assisted Rafael in the “Play” (which translates to game design in our language) sessions by helping teachers brainstorm game ideas, observing and recording questions, answers, and discussion, and asking guiding questions during game design and playtesting.

My goal as part of this project is to encourage the creation of humane games as an exercise in learning, research, teaching, and play. You can read about the class sessions on my P4 blog and about Humane Games at this link (which is the top Google hit for “humane games” – w00t!)