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4 Ways Co-design will Make or Break your Game
Should you work with another game designer to co-design your game or create your game by yourself? It depends. There are pros and cons to each approach. […]
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4 Ways Co-design will Make or Break your Game
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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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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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Playtest Like a Researcher: Observational Playtesting
In boardgames, there isn’t a formal term to cover the set of playtesting techniques that are about observations of play rather than post game feedback […]
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Prototyping and Playtesting – Games 2 Unite’s Ubuntu Game
Our target audience is teenagers of different ethnicities and cultures who together play our game to learn about their differences through conversations […]
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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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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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Board games for participatory research
One of the objectives of this project was to increase dietary autonomy and promote traditional knowledge associated with biodiversity of indigenous peoples. […]
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What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning
Computer games, good computer games, well-designed computer games, are learning games. These games constantly collect data about the game session and the player. Based on these data the difficulty of the challenges is adjusted and […]
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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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Including only what is needed – Lessons from Castle Dice
This article is part of a series I wrote some time ago when I was in the process of designing a business sustainability boardgame and was documenting the design process. At the moment, my absolute […]
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Communicating through games
The more work I do with teams and groups, the more it becomes apparent that communication is the absolute foundation to everything that goes around it. You can’t build trust without talking. You can’t explore […]
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Bananagrams vs Scrabble – in the Covid age
The following is a transcript of a conversation between Sarah Le-Fevre (Ludogogy) and Jeremy Dick. Jeremy contacted Ludogogy with an insight he had gained comparing the play of Bananagrams and Scrabble whilst in lockdown. To […]
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The LGBT+ Game – Building Awareness in Teams
The LGBT+ game promotes discussion in a safe environment, and understanding of the LGBT+ community through looking at history, discrimination and case studies […]
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Once Upon a Dice Roll
It all starts with dice …. The first year Narratology for Games module has, as many long standing and ever-evolving programmes do, had an interesting history of being split, merged, moved around and eventually settled […]