Designing a Kind Experience

Designing a Kind Experience:
Game design is about creating experiences – experiences that evoke pleasurable
changes in emotional states. Often gameplay is accompanied by tension, excitement,
drama, frustration, and finally relief.

Designing this up and down of experience that makes players come back for more
requires knowledge about the structure of experiences. Whenever we put thought into
what we are going to wear to make an impression, how to broach a difficult subject or
maybe wiggle out of a difficult situation – we try to design an experience for others.

This assignment aims to hone your skills in creating experiences for others and focuses
on designing a kind experience for a person of your choice. The goal is to make that
person happy. What exactly you are going to do is up to you, but the focus needs to be
on the other person: what they would like; how to create a pleasurable experience for
them.

Submit a description of your design and the results of performing it to D2L. Including:
• Who is the person you are designing this experience for?
• What is the experience you are creating?
• How did you make the experience special or memorable?
• Describe the recipient’s reaction to your experience – beginning, middle, end
• Is there anything you would do differently the next time?

Grading Rubric:
• B: A write-up of your experience design
• A: A thorough write up including the details about performing the experience