GLS Conference

This open, interactive, outdoor workshop experience takes participants through a series of modifications on playground-style play to explore how games work and how they can be designed to create meaningful experiences for players. Starting with play, discussion, and analysis of the classic Rock-Paper-Scissors, the group will carry the game through a number of transformations, turning it into a psychological multiplayer game, reskinning it with different content, and then finally changing it into a more competitive team-based game. Playing through each transformation, participants will gain insight into how games create meaning, how spaces and structures generate narratives, and how seemingly superficial changes to the design of a game can have deep implications for interactions between people. Join us–and be prepared to play!