MMORPG.com's Carolyn Koh recently attended the LOGIN conference. While there, she attended a lecture that focused on the tutorials in video games and how they could be approached differently.
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Sheri Graner Ray is no stranger to the game industry or game designers. She has been making games since 1990, is the author of Gender Inclusive Game Design - Expanding the Market, a co-founder of the International Game Developer's Association and has been recognized for her work in gender and games. In her lecture, she spoke of the three different types of learners:
- Visual learners - those who learn best by reading and visual aids
- Audio learners - those who learn best by listening
- Kinetic learners - these are those of us that can't sit still but have to move while learning
She then moved on to the two knowledge acquisition modes which were what the lecture was mostly about:
Read Game Tutorials & How We Learn.
