MangleOfPlayDiscussion.md

Questions:

1. Does anyone have any experience with multiplayer games like Lineage where the social standards of the player base had a strong impact on how the priorities of the developers or perhaps did not have a strong effect on the developers when it should have. How did things turns out due to this activity or inactivity?

2. How does Professor Steinkeuller's article tie into the bigger picture of video games and learning?

   • Assess the relationship between the void that developed in Lineage and one that could develop in learning tools due to a failure to address the way players play

3. Could we ever rely on student's to police eachother while using learning tools in the way that Lineage players did? I believe it wouldn't be possible due to non-deseriable behavior of "snitching" in elementary schools? Agree/Disagree?

4. Cheating in grade schools is an absolute issue that has never really been avoidable. Is it possibly the case that, contradictory to the article, it may be easier to police academic misconduct when learning and assessment is explored through the context of a game?

5. What does the coevolution of the player base with respect to the evolution of the game mean for games as learning tools?

   • Because players will find ways to break the games and thus our tools, they possibliy will never be able to be finished products

6. How do we account for cultural differences in our learning tools? How can tools be adapted to have the same perception in a Chinese classroom as an American classroom or any other places? Is it possible?

   • Surprisingly little about this in the discussion questions.