The Transform Deck is a deck of cards: 45 in five suits of nine cards each. Each card represents a way to take learning content and make it more interactive and engaging. For example, the […]
Building a multi-player training simulation game for Change Management – from scratch and against many odds 0: Here we go Day Number Zero It all started one day with one of our corporate clients asking […]
The aim of this article is to help the reader reflect on the value playtesting activities can add to the process of designing learning games or any type of playful learning activity. A general conceptualisation […]
Why we come up with excuses to avoid playtesting And so, the story goes like this: “No one likes to be told they have an ugly baby”. Heavens knows, us game designers regard our games […]
First, some definitions: Prototyping is a first, typical or preliminary model of something, especially a machine, from which other forms are developed or copied. Playtesting is a method of quality control that takes place at […]
Technological change has had a deep impact on both education and training (sharing knowledge, skills development, learning assessment). Since 1997, I have gradually introduced games in the classroom. First inspired by commercial games, I designed […]
For the last three years, I have been invited to a local youth group to run LEGO sessions. I must admit that after year two, I said to myself that it didn’t work, and that […]
One piece of advice you often come across in pieces about prototyping is to use the highest quality materials you can afford, to make your prototype as realistic as possible and to provide a better […]
Some of us did not pray when The Pandemic began. Some of us puzzled. Many artists frequently work from home. I’m one of them. When Covid19 hit in March 2020, my friends were NOT surprised to […]
“Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes”, David Bowie has been singing since 1972, probably never thinking this could start an article on serious game magazine ( 🙂 ). But, in my opinion, this verse is a perfect synthesis on what […]
Who was it that said “The only constant is change”? In fact, it doesn’t matter now who said it. The phrase is so widely used that either you probably have at some point used it […]
How a transformational game could foster more impactful results in a large-scale cultural change rollout. The simple definition of culture is the way companies do things -it is the feel, the smell and the vibe […]
Games-based learning and gamification of learning can have many aims. One of the biggest and most challenging is surely behavioural change. How can a game-based experience affect the long-term behaviour of the player? Focus on […]
The Dementia Awareness Game is a digital game that improves knowledge of dementia and attitudes to people living with dementia. The game addresses common myths and misconceptions about dementia and the people who live with […]
Player agency is about giving our players the time, space, and resources needed in order to make decisions in games. But is that is the only thing that agency provides to players? Is agency even […]
Ludogogy 2020
