James C. Reeder III
Projects / Gamified Instruction

Gamified Instruction

A game that turns the course's research methods into something students want to practice. It runs in the browser and is free to play.

Dungeons and Datasets title screen with a party of heroes and a data monsterArriving in the Survey Shire, home of the Leading Question Lich
Text adventure · Research methods

Dungeons & Datasets

An old-school, MUD-style text adventure where fantasy meets the quarterly review. Students pick a class like Hypothesis Hunter or Regression Ranger, explore by typing commands (n, look, help), and defeat each land's monsters by answering questions from the course. It began as the study break hidden inside Brother Knowledge: type Game on! there to play it mid-study.