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. […]
Player Experience
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. […]
Application
Libraries and Gamification
The library can provide an interesting experience to users by utilizing gamification, and gamification can make the library more fun and engaging. […]
Application
Accessibility in Games
Accessibility is often talked about. But, what does it mean and what does it entail when designing games for entertainment, learning, or personal development? […]
Ideas
What are Megagames?
A megagame is an interesting combination of different game elements encountered in other places. They involve role-playing, simulation, and social interactions. […]
Ideas
A Philosopher’s Note on the Idea of Role Play
What unites role-play, playing a role, and acting in a play? They all require the self or the real person to stand aside, (to) become temporarily invisible. […]
Application
Learning by Playing Serious Games
Serious games can be incredible tools for teaching, learning, and education. They help players learn experientially though play by putting concepts into use […]
Ideas
The Metaverse is the Game
‘What is most important to consider in building the metaverse?” My answer is very simple. It’s the basic concept that, ‘The Metaverse is the game’. […]
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. […]
Ideas
Building Soft Skills in Games
Games are capable of helping students learn any number of different skills more intuitively than they would from traditional classroom instruction. […]
design process
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. […]
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 […]
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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. […]
how to
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. […]
Ideas
Core Loops in Games
The core loop is the primary game system or mechanic which defines your game – the element of the game that players remember most or engage with most often. […]