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Key Factors of Educational Board Game Development
For directly experiencing and trying something together… and learning with inspiration, educational board games are an innovative area with a bright future. […]
Game Design
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Practical Methodology for the Design of Educational Serious Games – Part I
All the main steps that are needed to define the learning mechanisms in an educational serious game, from topic choice to use experience. […]
Ideas
What is the Magic Circle?
The magic circle is a place where different rules govern our existence, actions, and consequences. But what is the magic circle and where does it exist? […]
design process
The Museum of Impossible Objects – Educational Field Trip
I’ve always been interested in how speculative fiction – science fiction, fantasy, and even horror, allows us to more deeply reflect on what it is to be human. […]
design process
Using Games to Sculpt Agency
Thi Nguyen’s book, ‘Games: Agency as Art’ offers us a framework for learning games that focuses on our tools and their potential, and what we can do for players […]
Ideas
Creativity – Eureka Moment or Piecemeal Awakening?
Does creativity come from unstructured tinkering and gambolling or is it upon the participant to decide how, when and why to develop their creative repertoire? […]
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Types of Games Aesthetics
Aesthetics are the experience that players want to get from playing the game. They are the purpose of playing the game. This shows commonly used aesthetics. […]
design process
Playing by Yourself – Tabletop Automa
We can’t always find others to play with. Enter ‘Automa’; both ‘official’ – included with published COTS games, and ‘unofficial’ fan-built solo play systems. […]
Ideas
Why, and Why Not to use Simulations in Learning
The earliest learning simulations were wargames. Modern simulations grew out of combatants’ need to understand past strategies, and to develop and test new ones […]
Ideas
Take a chance on Dice
The flatness of cards informs how they can be played with, and in the same way, the fact that dice are 3D objects opens up different possibilities for their use […]
Design Challenge
The Versatility of Cards
This versatility of cards comes from physical characteristics – materials, flatness, two-sidedness etc., and from lack of limitation on the ‘content’ they hold. […]
Ideas
Applied Games-Based Learning
How do you apply games-based learning? What specific learning outcomes can you target? What games are specifically available to meet the needs of your students? […]
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The Game of You – Character Sheet
Te first of a series of fully customisable RPG ‘real-play’ tracking sheets to help you gamefully track progress to big life and work goals […]
Ideas
The Game of You – A Real-life RPG
Find out how you could you use the concepts of Stats, Skills and Quests from RPG games to apply to the design of your own life and achieving your big goals. […]
Live sessions
MyCelium Playtest – June 8th
MyCelium started with a simple idea – prompted by a report on some research which shows that fungi can communicate using up to 50 ‘words’. […]