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Using Games to Sculpt Agency
Thi Nguyen’s book, ‘Games: Agency as Art’ offers us a framework for learning games that focuses on our tools and their potential, and what we can do for players […]
Articles by Terry Pearce
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Gift Horse Download
The Gift Horse invites you to tune into the animal which has attached itself to you – and find out more about it and yourself. […]
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Dungeons & Dragons & Development
One way for games to have a real impact on people’s development is the use of tabletop role-playing games, particularly Dungeons & Dragons, for therapy. […]
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How victory conditions frame play
What we can learn from games that go beyond racing for points or position There are two ways to win most games (AKA Victory conditions). Either reach a certain goal first (get a number of […]
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Acquiring Real-Life Economics Skills from Games
What many people mean when they say ‘teach economics’ is ‘teach people the skills to operate well in an economic system’. This, Monopoly is not very good at. […]
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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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Unlock Behaviour Change with Games-based Learning
One of the most challenging aims of games-based learning is behavioural change. How can a game-based experience affect the long-term behaviour of players? […]
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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 […]
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Engagement and Learning as Emergent Properties of Systems Modelling: What we can Learn from Crusader Kings III
Your mileage may vary, but I remember history at school as long, boring lists of kings and queens. I had no interest in it. My sole motivation in showing up to any of the lessons […]
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Designing for Difference – Autism and Games-based Learning
This is an edited transcript of a conversation between Terry Pearce, who works through his business ‘untold play’ to bring the power of play into learning environments, and Sam Warner, ‘The Autistic Interpreter’, who works […]
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Five Ways to Design Collaborative Games
In a previous article for Ludogogy, I explored why it’s important that not all learning games are competitive, especially when teambuilding is a key aim. But If we don’t have that simple crutch to reach […]
Review
Review of Evivve: The Leadership Game
The game set-up is well-balanced to test a range of real-life collaboration, communication, strategy and decision-making skills. […]
Book Review
Review – Emotify!The Power of the Human Element
‘Emotify!’ starts by making its case for game-based learning over lectures and takes a tour through the landscape of game-based learning. […]
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“But some people don’t like games”
Motivating non-gamers through playful, gamelike experiences and games People who are into games and gamification often get excited about it. Yu-Kai Chou, Andrzej Marczewski and Jane McGonigal have all spoken about their passion for games […]
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The Dangers of Competition in Workplace Games
Bringing Collaboration into Play Right now, gamification and games are so focused on online implementation that you could be forgiven for thinking they’re mainly about tech. But online is just one playing field, and tech […]