games and museums: the potential, the proof, and the challenges (talk for museum ideas)

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Games and Museums: The potential, the proof, and the challenges Martha Henson @marthasadie

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Talk for the Museum Ideas conference on how games can be used in museums

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Games and Museums: The potential, the proof, and the challenges

Martha Henson@marthasadie

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Wellcome CollectionWellcome Collection•Life, medicine and art

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EngagementEngagement•Non-didactic approach

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Why games?Why games?•Museum “stuff” makes great games

•Reach a new, bigger audience

•Gameplay IS engagement

Thoughtden/Capture the Museum

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How?How?•Collaborate on it

•Test it

•Distribute it to portals

•Evaluate the hell out of it

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High TeaHigh Tea

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AxonAxon

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Magic in Modern LondonMagic in Modern London

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Who’s the PestWho’s the Pest

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BUTBUT•Games can be expensive•Games can be difficult to get right

El Paso Times

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CostCost

•Don’t reinvent the wheel

•Find more money

•Run a game jam

•Don’t cut corners

•Use existing game creation tools

•Do something simple, use paper!

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DifficultyDifficulty•Work with experts

•Test and iterate

•Think systems

•PLAY

Playniac

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Thanks!Thanks!

[email protected]

•@marthasadie

•Museum Games wiki: museumgames.pbworks.com

•Wellcome games: www.wellcomecollection.org/explore/play.aspx

•@edugameshub / edugameshub.com