Playing to learn game design skills in a game context

This interactive session presents early research findings resulting from a game simulation currently called Gamestar Mechanic through which 70 middle and high school-age players learn to design video games. Gamestar Mechanic is an RPG (Role-Playing Game) style online game through which players take null the behaviors characteristic of professional game designers (e.g., designing games, accounting for variability change within a game's system,...