{"id":337118,"date":"2025-10-20T17:02:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2165418"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:02:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:02:47","slug":"someone-should-make-a-game-about-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/someone-should-make-a-game-about-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone should make a game about: teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/someone-should-make-a-game-about-teaching.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve sat in my fair share of fictional classrooms, mainly in Persona 5, where you answer pop-quiz type questions and avoid projectiles between stints moonlighting as a masked vigilante. But have we ever seen life from the other side of the desk? I propose that someone should make a game about the day-to-day school life of a teacher, trying to manage their time and energy to better their students, which would shine a great light into pedagogy (there&#8217;s your word of the day).<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to teaching, things like union strikes over pay and lengthy holiday time relative to other jobs may come to mind, but being a school teacher is about so much more than that. As a school teacher you are interacting with so many different people, not just pupils, and it&#8217;s crucial that you form strong bonds with these people to thrive in the role. <\/p>\n<p>Imagine the social management aspects of Persona 5 on a colossal scale. There are faculty staff, departmental heads, heads of year groups and overall heads of the school. And that&#8217;s just internally. Liaise with someone to deliver a talk to your students, negotiate prices and arrange logistics for a field trip, try to acquire the latest textbooks and teaching materials &#8211; it&#8217;s a vocation that sees you dealing with so many people every day. Of course there are only a certain number of hours in a school day, and a game could see you choose which bonds you&#8217;d best like to focus on, perhaps with a real-time aspect, so you could truly feel each second ticking by. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-08-31-someone-should-make-a-game-about-teaching\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-08-31-someone-should-make-a-game-about-teaching\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve sat in my fair share of fictional classrooms, mainly in Persona 5, where you answer pop-quiz type questions and avoid projectiles between stints moonlighting as a masked vigilante. But have we ever seen life from the other side of the desk? I propose that someone should make a game about the day-to-day school life of a teacher, trying to manage their time and energy to better their students, which would shine a great light into pedagogy (there&#8217;s your word of the day). When it comes to teaching, things like union strikes over pay and lengthy holiday time relative to other jobs may come to mind, but being a school teacher is about so much more than that. As a school teacher&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/someone-should-make-a-game-about-teaching\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Someone should make a game about: teaching | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Over the years I&#039;ve sat in my fair share of fictional classrooms, mainly in Persona 5, where you answer pop-quiz type questions and avoid projectiles\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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