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How do you Design Games for Flow State
Flow is a sought after experience in games – engaging and enthralling because players lose sense of time / space and are completely engrossed in the game world. […]
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The Power of Boardgames
A board game can be a mirror of the player themselves. One player may be obsessed with winning, another may benefit from being in “someone else’s shoes” […]
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What are Megagames?
A megagame is an interesting combination of different game elements encountered in other places. They involve role-playing, simulation, and social interactions. […]
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A Philosopher’s Note on the Idea of Role Play
What unites role-play, playing a role, and acting in a play? They all require the self or the real person to stand aside, (to) become temporarily invisible. […]
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Roll for Change: RPG Mechanics & Wicked Problems
An unconventional yet promising approach to tackle ‘wicked’ systemic issues, like climate change and inequality, is to use tabletop Role-Playing Games (RPGs). […]
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Making the Value of ‘Together’ Better: Local Gamification
According to Gartner’s Hype Cycle, gamification entered the 5th stage – ‘stabilization in 2022, moving from the 2nd stage – ‘before popularization’ in 2012. […]
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Learning with the Fantastic and Fabulous
Come explore the Fantastic and Fabulous in Learning and Facilitation and discover the answer to the most important question of all
“And then what happened” […]
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The Metaverse is the Game
‘What is most important to consider in building the metaverse?” My answer is very simple. It’s the basic concept that, ‘The Metaverse is the game’. […]
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Building Soft Skills in Games
Games are capable of helping students learn any number of different skills more intuitively than they would from traditional classroom instruction. […]
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Core Loops in Games
The core loop is the primary game system or mechanic which defines your game – the element of the game that players remember most or engage with most often. […]
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The Power of Compounding in Games
Systems compound and this type of thinking, invest extra resources into a system,
benefitting us in the long run, is done in games through ‘engine’ mechanisms. […]
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Unlocking Creativity through Learning without ‘Content’
The need to find meaning has given us religious beliefs, creation myths and the scientific method, and many other staggering examples of creative imagination. […]
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The Other – Neurodivergence in Games
The ‘Magic Circle’ of games enables many things. One that is important, from a learning perspective, is the opportunity to step into the shoes of other people. […]
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What is Kingmaking?
Kingmaking in game theory concerns the end game scenario where a player is able to make a winning move for another player – when they cannot themselves win. […]
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Gamification – A Recovering Force Towards the Archetype
Why would Steve Jobs want to trade all his tech for an afternoon with Socrates? Why did he say, “In Apple’s DNA, it’s technology married with liberal arts.” […]