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Jesse Schell’s Six Questions for Playtesting
The Transform Deck is a deck of 45 cards in five suits. Each card represents a way to take learning content and make it more interactive and engaging. […]
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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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The Play Personality for Gamification – Alyea Sandovar
Alyea Sandovar sent us this video looking at how she uses Play Personalities (Dr. Stuart Brown, at the Institute for Play) in her gamification work. […]
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Behavioural Change through Transformational Games
Cultural change is deeply behavioural, if you want a new culture, it means you have to define a new way of being, starting with changing individual behaviour […]
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Unlock Behaviour Change with Games-based Learning
One of the most challenging aims of games-based learning is behavioural change. How can a game-based experience affect the long-term behaviour of players? […]
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Round-up of Playful Creative Summit 2021
David Chislett talks about the Experience of running the second Playful Creative Summit, and how the vision for this event is developing. […]
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Leisuring from Home: The Future of Social Life, Entertainment, and Culture?
“All of man’s misfortune comes from one thing, which is not knowing how to sit quietly in a room.” – Pascal, Pensées (1670) “The only good thing for man is to be diverted so that […]
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Sex and the pandemic
[Editor’s note -The Speculative Optimism project was launched in February. The first phase of the project is to produce a book of optimistic speculative fiction – and later there will be a collaborative community space […]
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Why game design matters to me – Part II
One of Ludogogy’s (very) regular contributors, Thomas Ackland wrote an article for this issue, way back in March, before it was postponed. He then developed his thoughts over the intervening months, and sent us another […]
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Increasing Engagement by 2000% Using Games
I run a certification program in which I help trainers and facilitators learn how to use a multiplayer game to facilitate their own virtual learning experiences. Because of the multiplayer and virtual nature of my […]
Why Games Design matters to me – Part I
One of Ludogogy’s (very) regular contributors, Thomas Ackland wrote an article for this issue, way back in March, before it was postponed. He then developed his thoughts over the intervening months, and sent us another […]
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Interactive Netflix Gamification is Here, but Will it Get People Hooked?
This article was originally published on the Octalysis Group website in March, 2019. The original article can be accessed at the Octalysis Group’s website . Chris hopes to follow up soon with analysis of the new […]
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Once Upon a Webinar
Once upon a time, an engineer ‘Nour’ from the future was faced by a huge challenge where the air pollution forced humans to stay home as the air became no more breathable. As an engineer […]
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THE REMOTE FRAMEWORK: Guide to Remote Working
Turbulent times for engagementThe world is going through turbulent times. We are all busy adjusting to unprecedented realities. Companies worldwide have had to readjust to at least one aspect of this ‘new ‘normal’: many of […]
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Changing a classic board game to online: A look behind the scenes
As we believe in the power of play, one of our approaches in order to develop teams is to set learning arenas built by our Serious Games. The last month’s “Lord McGroundwork’s Shipyard”, our new […]