Learning Within Gameplay Loops: Considering Adaptive Educational Technology from a Game Design Lens.

Adaptivity has the potential to have a substantial impact on the field of Game-Based Learning. However, much of the existing work on adaptive strategies in games can be difficult to translate from the context of one game to another. I hypothesize that this is because existing work does not take into consideration how game designers think about games as dynamic systems. In this paper I will present the idea of Gameplay Loops as a game design lens for approaching adaptivity in games. I will illustrate this lens through a speculative case study envisioning how different forms of adaptivity might be implemented in an existing educational game.