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Storytelling and Motivation in Mobile Games
Because almost everyone can easily access mobile games, it makes sense for game development companies to develop or convert games for mobile platforms. […]
Engagement
Storytelling and Motivation in Mobile Games
Ideas
Water Closets and the Gamification of Learning
The WC tells us that excrement is waste, for which the solution is disposal. The way many adults view Play shares characteristics of the water closet mindset. […]
Ludogopedia
Flow Theory in Games and Learning
The term ‘Flow’ is often used in reference to games, as well as in learning settings. It’s an important concept within both contexts of games-based learning. […]
Ideas
What Makes an Experience Interesting?
When I play games, there is a total shift in consciousness for me. This is about far more than the ‘fun’ that we all experience when playing a game we enjoy. […]
design process
Learning Games – The Challenge of House Rules
It is in overcoming ‘unnecessary’ obstacles that the ‘fun’ of playing is to be had – pleasure derived from overcoming and prevailing. […]
design process
Designing Learning Games with Players in Mind
Playing games is almost always an enjoyable activity. However, designing educational games with the audience (players) in mind can be incredibly challenging. […]
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The Player Experience of Games
Player experience can be as simple as mechanics in gamification; or a complex serious game. That experience dictates how our game, is received by our users. […]
Ideas
Why Learning Makes Great Games
Well-designed games are great for creating learning, but maybe we should rather be thinking that well-designed learning is a great way to make compelling games. […]
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The Effects of Win/Loss States on Learning
Most games are designed as zero-sum. Where one side wins and the other inevitably loses. But we all know that life, and learning, is far from zero-sum. […]
Ideas
The Collaborative-Competitive Paradox of Self-Gamification
In my first self-motivational game, the 5 Minute Perseverance Game, I pursued a project or activity of my choice for five minutes a day and recorded my score […]
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Win States in Games to Keep Players Playing
For some, it is about winning, yet for others, it is the zeal to learn the process and ponder over the experience and mistakes and the takeaways from it. […]
Ideas
Die Trying – Learning through Failure in Games
In other words, learners have to feel secure and brave enough to lose. What’s the best way to create flexible, emotional resilience to making mistakes? […]
Ideas
Winning is Overrated (in Educational Games)
Do educational games need winners? You probably know about the benefits of educational games, but may feel strongly about the need for winning outcomes. […]
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Gamer Grind
What does Gamer Grind mean? How do players experience it? How can designers and educators of games-based learning address the grind in designs? […]
Ideas
Games, Business and Changing Times
Employers are clamoring for answers to an aging and dwindling workforce that is demanding a caring, flexible and sustainable work environment […]