Collaborative game-based learning experience
A fast-paced collaborative icebreaker that turns the opening of an adventure-themed leadership program into a shared mission.
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Participants entering an adventure-themed leadership program who needed to become an active, communicating team quickly.
Ryan led the learning-game concept, experience design, mechanics, visual system, and integration of the physical kit with mobile instructions.
Collaborators: Designed for facilitators and program leaders who carry the experience into the broader leadership program.Evidence is based on participant behavior visible during play—communication, movement, resource sharing, and cooperative problem-solving—not a longitudinal performance measure.
Primary practice: Learning productsThe program needed an opening experience that did more than introduce the theme. Participants had to move quickly from arriving as individuals to communicating, sharing resources, solving problems, and working as a team.
The opening had to involve up to eight people at once, avoid passive turns, establish the theme quickly, and deliver instructions at the point of play.
Ennovation Group designed Explorers Club as a fast-paced cooperative tabletop game. Teams of up to eight search for supplies, complete individual and group challenges, and recover 12 map pieces that reveal the club’s secret location. There are no turns, so everyone participates at once and success depends on communication, coordination, and shared problem-solving.
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Simultaneous cooperative play was used so the group could not succeed through one dominant participant or a sequence of individual turns. The experience makes communication and resource sharing necessary from the first minute.
The game gets people talking, moving, sharing resources, and solving problems within minutes. It establishes the adventure theme, raises the energy in the room, and gives facilitators a productive foundation for the leadership work that follows.
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