Review
Review – A Book About How We Learn From Failure
One of this book’s greatest strengths, is that it focuses on one aspect of play in learning, and gives space and time to be really thorough in exploring it. […]
Learning
Review – A Book About How We Learn From Failure
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. […]
design process
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. […]
how to
GAME BASED LEARNING – As Easy as ABC (and D)
Most Behavioural skills, leadership competencies, organisational values, and so on, are pure common sense. […]
design process
How victory conditions frame play
What we can learn from games that go beyond racing for points or position There are two ways to win most games (AKA Victory conditions). Either reach a certain goal first (get a number of […]
learning topics
Utopoly – Game and Utopian Research Method
acing catastrophes of pandemics, ecosystem collapse and climate change.Utopoly started out as a ‘hack’ of Monopoly but has evolved to become much more. […]
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 […]
design process
“Hack & jaM”: The birth of a Role Playing Game
I had the idea to hack Arduino boards, the sensors and actuators to make my own instruments. The concept of the role-playing game “Hack and jaM” was born. […]
design process
Debriefing and Feedback for Ubuntu Game
The Ubuntu Game is a physical and virtual board game designed to teach teenagers the wonders of diversity, inclusion and equality […]
how to
What’s in a Game? – Debriefing Learning Games
Many have discovered that learning games and playful activities are effective for learning if you are required to use ‘online’, rather than a classroom setting. […]
design process
Liber Domus – Interview with Eduardo Nunes
In this issue, we are delighted to have the opportunity to talk to Eduardo Nunes about his ‘Open World’ Educational game, Liber Domus. […]
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. […]
how to
Games and Gamification as a tool for Social Change
Games make a difference, today more than ever. When people play, they get inspired and open to learn new things while interacting with each other. […]
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
Digital Games as Roadmaps to Meaningful and Powerful Change
This was not one of those stories in which I got an excellent grade by being creative and resourceful. But it was, for all purposes, my first world. […]