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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 […]
Articles by Ludogogy
Review of Transform Deck and Toolkit
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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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Putting the play of making into your Playtesting
One piece of advice you often come across is to use the highest quality materials you can afford, to make your prototype as realistic as possible. […]
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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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What’s in a Game? – Debriefing Learning Games
Many have discovered that learning games and playful activities are effective for learning if you are required to use ‘online’, rather than a classroom setting. […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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. […]
Ideas
The Future of a Planetary-wide Consciousness
Victor Motti’s book, ‘A Transformation Journey to Creative and Alternative Planetary Futures’, embodies a heartfelt plea for the creation of a planetary-wide consciousness, which the author (probably quite rightly) believes is our best hope for […]
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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 […]
Ideas
What Lies Beneath – Emergence in Games Systems
There are a number of ways in which games can be classified or described as systems. In regard to their composition, they can be seen as collections of inter-related parts; rules, mechanisms, physical components and […]
Ideas
Beer and Trippples – Games as Cybernetic Systems
Nowadays, when most people hear the term ‘Cybernetics’ they will tend to associate it with computer technology, possibly in a sci-fi or futuristic context. However, the term existed well before the age of digital computing. […]
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Review – Ideas Arrangements Effects by DS4SI
Ideas, Arrangements, Effects (IAE) starts with a simple premise – that ideas are embedded in social arrangements, which in turn produce effects. […]