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Focus on… In-game Economies
In-game economies – the creation and destruction of value commonly seen in games, or in gamification applications with collectable and exchangeable points. […]
Year: 2021
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Review of Transform Deck and Toolkit
The Transform Deck follows the tradition of creativity decks such as Michalko’s Thinkertoys This deck focuses on inspiring ideas and sparking creativity […]
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Focus on… Make & Break Live Events
As a tie-in with the Make & Break issue of Ludogogy, we organised a number of events about Playtesting and Prototyping including a oopening panel event […]
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Review of Gameful Habits – self-gamification
Bartels is the author of numerous books on different facets of her ‘Self-Gamification’ approach to self-help by turning one’s life into games. […]
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Review of Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design
If this book by Engelstein and Shalev had existed back then, I would definitely have used it to explore game mechanics to inform my game design. […]
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Focus on… Feedback Loops in Games Based Learning
Feedback is an important part of the learning process. Feedback is also really important for games to be engaging and fun. […]
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Focus on… Theory of Change
If you’ve ever been involved in a change initiative, chances are, somewhere along the line, you have come across a kind of ‘magical thinking’ whereby those proposing the changes miss out many of the details […]
Review
Review of Designing Games and Gamification for Learning
If you wanted to be able to explain the pedagogical value of games and gamification, then this book would work extremely well. […]
Focus
Focus on… Utopias and Dystopias
The word Dystopia was coined when John Stuart Mill, added the prefix ‘dys’, meaning ‘bad’ to utopia, to create the idea of a perfect world gone bad. […]
Review
Review – Living Complexity by Luca Minudel
Living Complexity is described by its author, Luca Minudel, as a catalogue of practices for use within teams, with an eye also at the broader organisation. […]
Focus
Focus on… Games Systems for Games Design
There is however another class of ‘games’, made up of generic components and concepts , which therefore allow an almost infinite number of possibilities in play […]
Review
Review of Framing Play Design
When we play, we explore and create things that can never come into being when we are focused on doing things right and achieving […]