Issue: Sustainability

Welcome to issue three of Ludogogy Magazine – ‘The Sustainability Issue’

This issue is all about how we can use games and gamification to make the world a better place, and particularly about environmental and business sustainability. Happy Earth Day!

Explore:

Biophilia and Biomimicry in learning design
How Gamification of behaviour change can be implemented at scale
How data from the distant past informs future simulations
How games can engage employees in complex concepts such as sustainability
Co-creation with teens
Much more

Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stay Playful

#Play4Sustainability: Engaging employees in sustainability through play

19th April 2020 Alice Richard & Sophie Segal 0

Sustainability is an aspect of business that is perceived by employees as complex, confusing and time consuming. A topic that is still too often ‘siloed’, leaving employees disengaged and lacking interest to understand the full […]

Legacy Games and Tipping Points

17th April 2020 Ludogogy 2

One of the much-vaunted advantages of using games to facilitate learning is the idea of the ‘safe environment’. The premise is, that players and teams can experiment with taking actions, and, because there are no […]

Octalysis Analysis of a Sustainability Learning Programme

17th April 2020 Ludogogy 0

When I first discovered Yu-kai Chou’s Octalysis framework, shortly after he published ‘Actionable Gamification’, I knew straight away that I would find it an invaluable tool, not just to help me design learning with learner […]

Enhancing Biophilia for Sustainability Learning

17th April 2020 Ludogogy 0

Edward O Wilson popularised the term Biophilia a hypothesis that humans innately possess “…the urge to affiliate with other forms of life”. […]

Natural & organisational ecosystems

17th April 2020 Ludogogy 2

A design challenge I have frequently tackled over the past few years has been to create games which relate to the functioning of ecosystems. This is not perhaps surprising as I have been delivering learning […]

Imagining a Better World: Game Design with and for Teens

17th April 2020 Susan Rivers & Susan X Jane 2

As long-time youth program developers, several years ago we became curious about game design, inspired in part by Doris Rusch’s work on deep games.[1] In Making Deep Games and her TEDx Talk[2], Rusch describes how […]

What playing games and turning life into games can teach us?

17th April 2020 Victoria Ichizli-Bartels 2

This article contains a list of twenty-three lessons learned from games and turning our lives into games. This list is an extended excerpt from the book Gameful Project Management. The extensions are mainly from Self-Gamification […]

Things to keep in mind when developing Educational Games

17th April 2020 Thomas Ackland 3

There are many things that need to be taken into account when developing games that are intended for educational purposes. Whilst every product requires different approach depending on things such as your team size, the […]

Climate Change-Catalyzed Simulations in the Anthropocene – Going Back to the Future with Jurassic Park?

17th April 2020 Nick Burk & Tiffany Parker 2

Water stress, searing heat, refugees, displacement, geopolitical uncertainty. In talking to innovative colleagues in the serious games space in The Hague this past week, the wargaming of the future is complex, and multidimensional—and climate change […]