Back in April I noted that I was thinking of adapting Enthiosys’s Buy a Feature game to be used in the context of a Software Product Line scoping tutorial I’m running at SPLC 10.

I’ve been busy the past couple of weeks completing my slides for this session and refining the game concept into something that should be enjoyable as well as educational.

Although the idea of playing a game as part of learning may be alien to some people it does seem to be a valuable learning technique and also seems to be becoming increasingly popular in some parts of the software field.

In case anyone is thinking of participating, but is unsure about something so radical, I can assure you that much of the rest of the session will be pretty conventionally-based on slides and very short exercises. Most people should find the game itself pretty straightforward to grasp and game-play shouldn’t take up more than around 30% of the session.

Hope to see some of you there. It should be fun.