Plateaus, Towers and Shrines Man Met Rise's Open World Design Principles: Watch Online

As promised, here is the recording of our recent talk ‘Plateaus, Towers and Shrines Man Met Rise's Open World Design Principles.’

This is a recording of a talk presented by Dr Mark Peace and Dr John Lean about Manchester Metropolitan University's extra-curricular RISE programme. The seminar took place on 19/1/2022 as part of the MMGC event series. In the session Dr Peace and Dr Lean explore the ways in which they put the RISE philosophy into action via the design principles of open-world videogames. Though not a game, RISE incorporates metaphorical features that are directly inspired by open world games, in particular The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild,. The talk explores some of these game-like features to explain how they influence students’ journeys through RISE. Using this extended metaphor. John and Mark also discuss the emerging implications of this ‘open world’ delivery model for HE pedagogy elsewhere.

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