Episode 4: Fluency Play
September 13, 2010
Guest: Jason Godesky - author of The Fifth World and his podcast Storyjammers
Fluency Play
- Warm Up Games - What are they and how do they work?
- Free Word Association
- Color - Advance
- MouseGuard - use color advance
- William Larsen - The College of Mythic Carthography
- Graham Walmsley - Play Unsafe
- Use the first idea that comes to your head - even if its obvious
- Dogs in the Vineyard
Pedagogy of Play - Fluency play - games that teach you the rules and allows you to introduce new players to games!
- Joel Shempert - created Fluency Play
- Teaches you the rules as you play
- Sit down and play right now!
- Language fluency games - Evan Gardner wrote "Where are your Keys"
- ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
- Travels with Charlie - Levels of Fluency
Games you can use Fluency Play with
Use fluency play every time you play
- Helps build escalation and warm up
- Use during character creation
- Use it at cons to teach new players
The Fifth World
- Pseudo Utopian Post Apocalyptic game
- Uses Fluency play throughout the game
- Roleplaying Poems from Scandinavia
- Rules within the poem
Sept. 13, 2010, 9:13 p.m.
Great show! I am a teacher trying to game the high school classroom, and the learning curve of many rpgs is THE main barrier for deeper in-class play. This concept of fluency play just might be the answer. I need to learn more. Thanks for the show.
PF
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Sept. 14, 2010, 12:55 p.m.
Awesome show Jenn and Jason. It was pretty close to my heart as this has been something I'm really excited about as well. I hadn't heard the term Fluency Play before but agree it's much easier to say.
FWIW, here are the Mouse Guard training wheels I built: http://seannittner.livejournal.com/74233.html
Sept. 14, 2010, 4:48 p.m.
What a great show, Jenn and Jason! I'm glad "fluency play", as an idea, is getting out there. I'm looking forward to more designers taking a crack at designing step by step, effortless play.
Nov. 16, 2010, 12:05 p.m.
This idea has been on my mind, too. I'm glad to have a name I can attach to it now.
The new "red box" Starter Set for D&D 4E is laid out in this fashion, teaching the rules bit by bit as you read a solo Choose Your Own Adventure-style scenario.
April 14, 2011, 11:37 a.m.
Great episode! I totally agree that most RPGs are tough nuts to crack for most people. We old RPG beans tend to forget...
July 14, 2011, 2:11 a.m.
Awesome show!