This week we discuss the UX and Instructional Design potential of Gone Home, 2013’s 12th highest rated PC game on MetaCritic and the 2014 Games for Change Game of the Year. It’s also an excellent walking simulator. 

Gone Home is available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

Links mentioned in this episode:

An Application of Bloom’s Taxonomy to the Teaching of Business Ethics: 
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00383217

This American Life Episode 584: For Your Reconsideration: 
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/584/transcript

Testing Theories of Attitude Change With Online Panel Field Experiments: 
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/gsb-cmis/gsb-cmis-download-auth/414056

GDC 2014: Why is Gone Home a Game?: 
http://evt.dispeak.com/ubm/gdc/sf14/player.html?xml=201403825919_SPTZ.xml&token=3c6c000ab0766078310c 

The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman: 
http://www.jnd.org/books/design-of-everyday-things-revised.html 


Episode 02 - Gone Home

We talk about the intersection of video games, instructional design, and user experience.

Episode 02 - Gone Home

Gamification Unlocked