Dr. James "Pigeon" Fielder - "The (War)gamer's Toolkit: Harvesting Mechanics from other Game Genres"

We talk a lot at the Krulak Center about educational wargaming and wargaming mechanics; but there are other games, and thus other game mechanics, that the educator can use to enhance the learning experience from a vanilla wargame. To lay this out for us, this episode features #TeamKrulak Non-Resident Fellow and #BruteCast alum Dr. James “Pigeon” Fielder!  

Dr. James "Pigeon" Fielder joined Colorado State as an Instructor after retiring from the U.S. Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel and Associate Professor of Political Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is also serving as a Marine Corps University Non-Resident Krulak Fellow for academic years 2021-2023, develops organizational wargames under the name Liminal Operations, and is a roleplaying game content creator for Evil Beagle Games. Pigeon researches interpersonal trust and emergent political processes through cyber-based interaction and through tabletop and live-action gaming as natural experiments, with recent project including an ethnographic study of live-action role-players published in "The Politics of Horror" and a manuscript under review on player coordination in EVE Online. Pigeon has over two decades of experience designing, executing, and assessing training exercises and wargames, from small-group tabletop discussions to multi-day exercises engaging 5,000+ participants, and is a co-editor of the forthcoming book "Games without Frontiers: Simulations in the Political Science Classroom" with Mark Harvey and Ryan Gibb. 

Dr. Fielder references a game design checklist in the presentation, which can be downloaded here.

Intro/outro music is "Evolution" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com)

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