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How Games Work: Exploring The Instructional Design Of Diablo Iii, Carly Finseth
How Games Work: Exploring The Instructional Design Of Diablo Iii, Carly Finseth
Carly Finseth
This paper describes a portion of a three-part case study designed to research the instructional patterns that occur within role-playing games (RPGs). It presents a set of nine heuristics for learning in RPGs and analyzes how and where those heuristics occur within the game Diablo III. The findings from the study include an overview of a cyclical learning pattern that occurs with RPGs, as well as theoretical and practical implication for both industry and academic contexts.