GDC 2006: Best Design Nuggets from the Serious Games Summit

The Serious Games Summit was reasonably interesting this year. I attended a mix of design, education, and business sessions. Here are a few of my favorite design nuggets from the past two days:

• Fading between the surface depiction of the world and a representation (diagram?) of the underlying system dynamics. [John Black, Teachers College of Columbia University]
• Leadership training and team building in MMOs. [Lisa Galarneau]
• The concept of convexity mapped onto a flow graph. [Noah Falstein]
• Clear goals = clear failure, which is not always good for a given player. [Jesper Juul]
• Games as interfaces for real work (ie playing a game is your work). [?]
• Overlaying grid lines on a world to teach coordinate plane concepts. [Tabula Digita]
• Simple AI can be built to take advantage of human attribution. [Nigel Papworth]

There are more, but I'm wiped out now. I'll revisit this post another day and see what I missed.