Designing

Essentials

All exercises need to consider SME - Story, Mechanics and Environment.

Use the Canvas in AXS to see these at a glance so you know they’re all considered together

Participatory Storytelling

A character in a story overcomes challenges to discover themselves.

In a crisis exercise, the player is the character – they must overcome challenges to believe in themselves and believe in the process (or reform it).

Think in terms of distinctive events which are moments in the exercise: one event = one serial.

Players need to do stuff

Exercises are participatory – we need to remember that we need to get players doing something, not passively reading.

A common mistake is to publish a lot of content and have players read too much.

Use the diagram below to consider possible player activities as a means to achieve your training objectives.