GAME-BASED PEDAGOGY: PLAYFUL APPROACHES FOR THE MEDIA PRODUCTION & DIGITAL HUMANITIES COLLEGE CLASSROOM is a collection of experiments investigating the opportunities and limitations of play-centric strategies in media education. This work brings together game design, public pedagogy, video production, computational storytelling, documentary ethics, and activism. 

The collection investigates the potential games have as a tool to recognize the systems that structure our daily lives, and the potential that play has as a method to understand and impact these structures. It also demonstrates the capacity of game frameworks to not only teach certain subjects, but their capacity to promote collective skill-building and creativity in the college classroom regardless of the specific content. This work is research about innovative pedagogy, and part of its value derives from the experimentation required in a field that is new and developing. Take Action Games frames this work as transdisciplinary, as we strive to synthesize and translate perspectives from multiple research/creative fields in order to move beyond discipline-specific approaches to shared problems. 

Acknowledgments
Thank you to all the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) students who participated in the playtests of THE FILM DIRECTING GAME and DIRECTING WITH ACTION VERBS!

Thank you to all the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) participants who co-designed and playtested the FUTURE TRIPPING MACHINE.

Thank you to the UCSB Wireframe Studio Wireframe Studio + Digital Arts & Humanities Commons staff and faculty.

Thank you to Alessia Cecchet for her documentary cinematography of THE FILM DIRECTING GAME.

Thank you to Operations staff of the UCSC Film and Digital Media Department.

A project by Take Action Games.

 

1. Introduction
2. The Film Directing Game
3. Future Tripping Machine
4. Directing with Action Verbs!
5. ideaDECK