Ideas
A Quintessential Scheme for Engagement
My only analysis is that I was an addict to the scheme. Yes, an addict. I was addicted to the “incentive scheme”. Do you know why? […]
Games
A Quintessential Scheme for Engagement
design process
That’s no spreadsheet… that’s a game engine!
I know I’m not supposed to enjoy spreadsheets the way I do. They’re tools, used for managing your finances. It’s not supposed to be fun. […]
learning topics
Gamenomics – Gamifying Stock Investments
In this article I explore business innovation anchored around economics and the genius application of gamification for the same […]
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 […]
Ideas
Change: a Game of Probabilities and Behaviours
Based on experience, our behaviour will be heavily biased for, or against the recently announced organisational change initiative at our place of work. […]
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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? […]
Ideas
What is Player Agency in Games?
Player agency is about giving our players the time, space, and resources to make decisions in games. But is that is the only thing that agency gives to players? […]
Ideas
Four Reasons Game-Based Learning Makes Corporate Training Better
Game-based Learning has the ability to build strong associations with reality – a direct correlation with how you may deal with similar situations in real life. […]
design process
The Mechanics of Plots in Peek
This article looks at how science fiction storytelling can be used as a technique in gaming. Specifically, we look at how plot prompts can be used alongside characters and situations to help players intuitively craft […]
Ideas
Playing games with the next generation
What will people want to play in 2040? As a futurist, I rely heavily on a skill called Scanning. Scanning is how we start to know the future and begin to expand our time horizon. […]
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Observing how games teach players to think and plan ahead
I have always subscribed to the idea that almost every game has something to teach you as you play it. Whether it is sharing a philosophical world view with games like ‘Spec Ops: The Line’(YAGER […]
Ideas
What Lies Beneath – Emergence in Games Systems
There are a number of ways in which games can be classified or described as systems. In regard to their composition, they can be seen as collections of inter-related parts; rules, mechanisms, physical components and […]
design process
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 […]
Ideas
Navigating the World of Gaming as a POC
If you were to ask me to name female Chinese characters in games from my childhood, I’d be able to count them on one hand. If you asked me to name ones that were a […]
learning topics
Skills I Learned by Playing Dungeons and Dragons
Samanta (Sami) Chan first published these slides as a series on LinkedIn. Ludogogy is delighted to present the first four of them together here. There are now many more. Visit Sami’s LI profile to view […]