transformational games need thoughtful implementation
A transformational game# needs to properly enmesh transformational objectives with gameplay, which is a difficult task.
Most transformational games fail because they simply take an existing template (e.g. Pac Man) and try to make it educational - Communicating Values through Mechanics
transformational games often have a rhetorical position that they reinforce through gameplay. Instead they should allow the player to discover the “correct” position through their gameplay. - Mechanic as the Message
Games should model systemic forces by letting their mechanics be abstractions of activities found within the larger system the game models. - Mechanic as the Message
