Gamifying Cloud Native: How to Design and Build an Educational Game for Your Project

Learn how to create educational games for teaching complex Cloud Native concepts in this 31-minute conference talk from KubeCon. Explore effective strategies for transforming abstract technical concepts into engaging gameplay mechanics through a case study of the Knative community's educational game. Discover practical approaches to brainstorming, selecting key concepts, and developing appropriate metaphors and symbols that make Cloud Native technologies more accessible to new users. Master information design techniques that can be applied beyond games to create more intuitive educational content for any Cloud Native project. Follow along as speakers from the University of Toronto and OCAD University demonstrate how gamification can overcome the challenges of explaining layered cloud technologies and domain-specific terminology.