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What Makes a Good Strategic Game?
What game experiences help you to create strategic responses to specific challenges? And which work for developing widely applicable strategic thinking skills? […]
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My Journey to Becoming a Game Designer
I never consciously decided to create games. My first creation, the Keep It Real game came to me, almost as if in a visitation […]
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Combining Maths, Physics, Videogames and Storytelling in RENOVATIO QUEST
As a high school teacher, I’ve always wondered what to do to make math and physics exercises more appealing for students. Can a 2D RPG help? […]
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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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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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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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Pizza KATA II Retrospect is a Mindset and Not an Action
Teams need to retrospect to get better, not just to celebrate wins. If teams want to improve they need to change what was wrong, or even not quite perfect. […]
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Pizza KATA or “Change is a Mindset and not an Action”
Sometimes it is not easy to make experiments, because we need realistic, failsafe and quick situations. Here is where games could support people […]
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Dementia: changing attitudes with a game.
The Dementia Awareness Game is a digital game that improves knowledge of dementia and attitudes to people living with dementia. […]
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Learning about systems using games.
One of the main aspects of games that tends to be overlooked by most people when you approach them with the idea of utilising games as a teaching or training tool is the freedom to […]
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Board games to engage in systems thinking
Systems thinking is one of the competencies that enable us to understand the complexity of global and networked structures and their outcomes. The interconnectivity between countries, companies, and people creates a net of relationships that […]
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Gamification of Strategic Thinking with a COTS boardgame
Editor’s note – while Ludogogy is most definitely a magazine and not a journal, and we normally publish relatively short articles, I thought that this more academically written article, submitted by Thorsten Kodalle, had a […]
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EdUTeam Wargames – Table-top wargames to train business school students
The work presented in this article is part of the EdUTeam educational and research project to assess the relevance of leisure games in higher education (https://eduteam.fr/). Our text is particularly interested in table-top wargames that […]
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Business Wargaming….for an uncertain world
Against the dramatic backdrop of the COVID-19 virus outbreak around the world, how can businesses develop a better understanding of their risks and uncertainties moving forward and stress-test their future opportunities? Wargaming can help organisations […]
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From Battlefield to Boardroom….. and back again!
Wargaming, red teaming……. these terms can often seem misleading. Much of it stems from the fact that the military heritage behind them gives them a credence all of their own. Having served in the Royal […]