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. […]
Motivation
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Gamification is Harder than Games
currently, games have little to gain from gamification. In most cases, it isn’t necessary for game designers and developers to get interested in gamification. […]
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Honey & Mumford Learning Styles
In 1986 Honey & Mumford put forward the idea of four different Learning Styles – Activist, Reflector, Theorist & Pragmatist, and described how they each behave. […]
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Motivation and Gamification
Motivation is a important research area, in many social science fields including psychology.The ‘how-to’ of creating immersion, has to be carefully considered. […]
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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 […]
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Purpose Increases Pleasure in Serious Games
An infographic compiled from Dive Deeper: Empirical Analysis of Game Mechanics and Perceived Value in Serious Games, looking at how purpose increases pleasure. […]
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Elevate Your Next Puzzle With These Design Secrets
Around 58% of mobile games are puzzles, mostly playable in single-player mode. They are shown to improve cognitive functions, reduce anxiety and enhance memory. […]
experiment
The Game of You – Quests
In (the game of) real life you play your ‘Employee’ character, but also ‘Parent’ or ‘Ska Drummer’ characters, each with different ‘stats’, skills, and allies. […]
Application
RPGs to Level Up in Life
While D&D is not a Quantified Self (QS) game, you’re not playing yourself, the mechanisms and experiences within RPGs have definitely informed the QS movement. […]
Ideas
What is Gamification?
What makes something “gamified?” How can gamification be used strategically? What are the pitfalls of gamification and how can we avoid them? […]
Application
Photos Alone Don’t do Justice to your Trips
Ramblr specializes in blogging and recording details about mountain climbing and walking because ‘Photos alone don’t do justice to your trips’ […]
design process
Storytelling and Motivation in Mobile Games
Because almost everyone can easily access mobile games, it makes sense for game development companies to develop or convert games for mobile platforms. […]
Ideas
Gaming in the Workplace
The ‘all work, no play’ approach means that we miss out on the many ways in which play could bring benefits to us in business. […]