Ideas
How do you Design Games for Flow State
Flow is a sought after experience in games – engaging and enthralling because players lose sense of time / space and are completely engrossed in the game world. […]
Game Design
Application
Lightning Multi-Game Design Jams
A pile of random materials and two hours. “Go! Make a game!” For some, this is oxygen to the designer’s brain. For others, this type of design jam doesn’t work. […]
design process
What Makes a Good Rulebook?
Often designers leave rulebooks till the end of the design process. However writing clear, concise, and actionable rules is more challenging than you may think. […]
design process
How do I Adapt Games for Learning?
Games-based learning is the use of games as a medium for learning. As such, educators often need to adapt existing games as vehicles for teaching and learning. […]
design process
Core Game Mechanisms and the Paper Prototype
When we design a board game, the core mechanisms, and paper prototypes are the key to continuously providing feedback and improving the game, and making it fun. […]
design process
Create Games Faster and Smarter with Generative AI
In game design, AI can be used for a range of purposes, at every stage from concept to implementation. This looks at the first stages – Concept to Prototyping. […]
experiment
Resisting the Purge – LinkedIn as a Game Platform
Can anything be a game? I think the answer is probably ‘Yes’, and I want to try out the idea that ‘real-life’, e.g. work, can be deliberately designed gamefully […]
design process
The Bots Are Coming – Let’s Have Some Fun!
Midjourney and ChatGPT are powerful AI tools that have the potential to revolutionise both the game and learning design process. Let’s see what they can do. […]
LindaInfo
Game Mechanics in Serious Games
How do the use of game mechanics relate to learner engagement in the context of serious games? Does more game experience necessarily mean greater engagement? […]
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Learning Online through Gamification
This article looks at the use of game mechanisms in learning applications to support pedagogical goals such as outcomes, motivation, percerptions and engagement. […]
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The MDA Framework – Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics
The MDA model breaks down a player’s consumption of the game into three parts, rules, system and fun. These correspond to Mechanics, Dynamics and Aesthetics […]
Ideas
Unlocking Creativity through Learning without ‘Content’
The need to find meaning has given us religious beliefs, creation myths and the scientific method, and many other staggering examples of creative imagination. […]
LindaInfo
Educational Games vs Games-based Learning
Educational games are designed explictly for education, whereas games-based learning claims that play and learning are the same
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Types of Game Mechanics
Game mechanics are the rules that govern and guide the players actions, as well as the game’s response to them. This post categorises those mechanics. […]
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Practical Methodology for the Design of Educational Serious Games – Part 2
All the main steps that are needed to define the learning mechanisms in an educational serious game, from topic choice to use experience. […]