{"id":169,"date":"2025-03-15T15:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T15:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/chapter\/creating-an-emotionally-persuasive-game\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:10:09","slug":"creating-an-emotionally-persuasive-game","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/chapter\/creating-an-emotionally-persuasive-game\/","title":{"raw":"Creating an Emotionally Persuasive Game","rendered":"Creating an Emotionally Persuasive Game"},"content":{"raw":"Have students access the student chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploringstudent\/chapter\/persuasive-games\/\">Persuasive Games<\/a> and tell them that they will be designing a game that either tries to make players <strong>agree with or accept an idea\u00a0<\/strong>(like the Apple ad or the \"To You, It's Just a Small Gap\" PSA) or <strong>understand a point of view or experience <\/strong>(like \"Autumn Peltier's Watermark\" or \"Adventure of the ADHD Dinosaur.)\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>You may choose to have them do this individually, in pairs or in small groups.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nExplain that it should do this primarily through the <strong>game play<\/strong>, but that they can also use emotional persuasion techniques they've learned about in this lesson such as <strong>words, images <\/strong>and <strong>music.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nHave them use the interactive activity to design their game.\r\n\r\nDepending on time and resources available, you may choose to have them make a prototype of the game and assess it with the <a href=\"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/chapter\/game-prototype-assessment-rubric-5\/\">Game Prototype Assessment Rubric<\/a>, or just submit their game design and assess it with the <a href=\"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/chapter\/game-concept-assessment-rubric-3\/\">Game Concept Assessment Rubric<\/a>.","rendered":"<p>Have students access the student chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploringstudent\/chapter\/persuasive-games\/\">Persuasive Games<\/a> and tell them that they will be designing a game that either tries to make players <strong>agree with or accept an idea\u00a0<\/strong>(like the Apple ad or the &#8220;To You, It&#8217;s Just a Small Gap&#8221; 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