games and museums: the potential, the proof, and the challenges (talk for museum ideas)
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Talk for the Museum Ideas conference on how games can be used in museumsTRANSCRIPT
Games and Museums: The potential, the proof, and the challenges
Martha Henson@marthasadie
Wellcome CollectionWellcome Collection•Life, medicine and art
EngagementEngagement•Non-didactic approach
Why games?Why games?•Museum “stuff” makes great games
•Reach a new, bigger audience
•Gameplay IS engagement
Thoughtden/Capture the Museum
How?How?•Collaborate on it
•Test it
•Distribute it to portals
•Evaluate the hell out of it
High TeaHigh Tea
AxonAxon
Magic in Modern LondonMagic in Modern London
Who’s the PestWho’s the Pest
BUTBUT•Games can be expensive•Games can be difficult to get right
El Paso Times
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!
DifficultyDifficulty•Work with experts
•Test and iterate
•Think systems
•PLAY
Playniac
Thanks!Thanks!
•@marthasadie
•Museum Games wiki: museumgames.pbworks.com
•Wellcome games: www.wellcomecollection.org/explore/play.aspx
•@edugameshub / edugameshub.com