NAC Add-On: Gaming Workshop: Let’s Play! Building Games for Public Participation

People love games and they build social connections. Learn how games can entertain and collaborate in community planning with case studies from the US, Canada, and other countries. Master the elements of game mechanics and develop a gamified engagement activity. Get in the sandbox with other practitioners, try out a new skill or improve on a past attempt.

The challenge to participants is to build a prototype of an actual game that can educate through

providing information, collecting valuable and meaningful data from participants and spark fun and community through play. We will learn about, build and test (play) the games together.