What is the connection between literacy and gaming?
A detailed response, with definitions of various kinds of literacy, is on the Literacy 101. There is no doubt that gaming and literacy go hand-in-hand. If you can’t read, you can’t play. Games come with instructions, menus, and more. Learning the language and mechanics of any game, from Chess to Little Big Planet, involves acquiring a new vocabulary. • Some card games, like Pokemon require deciphering the academic language of if/then clauses to determine the outcome of the battles that ensue when cards are played. Dungeons & Dragons comes with three tomes that serve as guides gameplay. Referring to these core manuals, as a player or gamemaster, depends heavily on information literacy skills; while the gameplay is focused on telling a story filled with conflict. Additionally, there is great deal of math involved in D&D: reading the dice, distributing attributes as players complete character sheets, adding and multiplying damage during combat, and understanding statistics and probability
