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Competences to facilitate a game design process

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10 competences to facilitate a game design process

Knowledge of game design methods

Flexibility and adaptability

Creativity

Communication

Management skills

Empathy

Respect

Patience

Critical thinking

Problem solving

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10 competences to facilitate a game design process

  1. Knowledge of the game design methods

Play a lot of games to become an expert at them! When starting, you can also follow the ‘5 stages’ method explained in the booklet ‘’Road book for the playitects’’.

  • Flexibility and adaptability

Ability to modify the behavior with a positive vision and adapt to different situations and people quickly, appropriately, and without fears.

  • Creativity

Ability to generate new ideas and concepts from associations between known ideas and concepts. Creativity allows providing new solutions to the challenges, problems, and situations to be faced.

  • Communication

Ability to interact efficiently and assertively with other people or groups to exchange information. This capacity also includes active listening and promotes positive relations.

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10 competences to facilitate a game design process

5. Management skills

It is a set of skills that are required to plan, organize and implement the inclusive game design process. Also, it includes the ability to manage the group you are working with according to the needs it has during the game design process.

6. Empathy

Ability to understand someone else's feelings or experiences without judgment.

7. Respect

Capacity to accept oneself and others, to identify and recognize individual differences without discrimination and act under the premise that all people have the same rights. This competence includes the capacity to build trusting relationships based on honest behavior.

8. Patience

Ability to remain calm when dealing with a difficult or annoying situation, task, or person.

9. Critical thinking

Ability to think clearly and rationally, understanding the logical connection between ideas or/and actions.

10. Problem solving

Capacity to accurately analyze a situation, assess its possibilities and identify a positive solution.