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<p>This paper reports results of completed research with primary school children which took place in Athens, Greece. Children engaged in designing the play experience of digital mini-games corresponding to episodes/missions of an entire plot. The games were coded by the school teacher on low-end mobile phones using AppInventor and were then played by children designers and testers. The game plot concerned restoring management rules for a public space (an urban park), along sustainability principles. The results focused on the participation processes of children in critical game narrative design, and decision-making about public space management alternatives to embed in game narrative design.</p>
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This paper reports results of completed research with primary school children which took place in Athens, Greece. Children engaged in designing the play experience of digital mini-games corresponding to episodes/missions of an entire plot. The games were coded by the school teacher on low-end mobile phones using AppInventor and were then played by children designers and testers. The game plot concerned restoring management rules for a public space (an urban park), along sustainability principles. The results focused on the participation processes of children in critical game narrative design, and decision-making about public space management alternatives to embed in game narrative design.

Participatory digital gameplay narrative design for public space sustainability management: empirical research with primary school children

Department of Communication and Media Studies

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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This paper reports results of completed research with primary school children which took place in Athens, Greece. Children engaged in designing the play...

Participatory digital gameplay narrative design for public space sustainability management: empirical research with primary school children

Published Online: Nov 01, 2022

Page range: 1 - 22

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tjcp-2022-0008

Keywords
participatory design, gameplay narratives, public space, children-led design, children participation

© 2022 Panagiotis Tragazikis et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Public License.

Participatory digital gameplay narrative design for public space sustainability management: empirical research with primary school children

Published Online: Nov 01, 2022

Page range: 1 - 22

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tjcp-2022-0008

Keywordsparticipatory design, gameplay narratives, public space, children-led design, children participation

© 2022 Panagiotis Tragazikis et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Public License.

Keywords
participatory design, gameplay narratives, public space, children-led design, children participation