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Utopoly – Game and Utopian Research Method
acing catastrophes of pandemics, ecosystem collapse and climate change.Utopoly started out as a ‘hack’ of Monopoly but has evolved to become much more. […]
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That’s no spreadsheet… that’s a game engine!
I know I’m not supposed to enjoy spreadsheets the way I do. They’re tools, used for managing your finances. It’s not supposed to be fun. […]
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Gamifying Social Action Towards Thriving Cities.
Applying game-design elements to real-world scenarios can increase community engagement by responding to some of our most basic social instincts […]
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Gamenomics – Gamifying Stock Investments
In this article I explore business innovation anchored around economics and the genius application of gamification for the same […]
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Games, Business and Changing Times
Employers are clamoring for answers to an aging and dwindling workforce that is demanding a caring, flexible and sustainable work environment […]
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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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Applying Agile Practices to Create an Agile Serious Game
Creating games is also a way to apply the agile approach in different contexts. If you are thinking if agile is just for IT, you are wrong! […]
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Jesse Schell’s Six Questions for Playtesting
The Transform Deck is a deck of 45 cards in five suits. Each card represents a way to take learning content and make it more interactive and engaging. […]
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Playtest Like a Researcher: Observational Playtesting
In boardgames, there isn’t a formal term to cover the set of playtesting techniques that are about observations of play rather than post game feedback […]
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So Farm So Good – from zero to ‘done’ in 21 days
Building a multi-player training simulation game for Change Management based on an organic farm – from scratch and against many odds […]
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Adding Playtesting to your Game Design Process
Playtesting is the moment of truth, the moment that you or other players try your prototype and you record the feedback and reactions. […]
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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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Playtesting and the Ugly Baby Complex
We game designers regard games as our babies. Naturally we don’t want anyone saying anything bad about them. And that’s a mistake. […]
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Prototyping and Playtesting – Games 2 Unite’s Ubuntu Game
Our target audience is teenagers of different ethnicities and cultures who together play our game to learn about their differences through conversations […]