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Article Category: design process

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Learning about systems using games.

15th January 2021 Thomas Ackland 0

One of the main aspects of games that tends to be overlooked by most people when you approach them with the idea of utilising games as a teaching or training tool is the freedom to […]

Map

Beyond Engagement: Competition and Exploration in Serious Games Using Digital Narrative

14th January 2021 David Chandross 0

The following is a chapter from an upcoming book by David Chandross, whom many of you will know from his fascinating posts on LinkedIn, and others from his academic publications. David is a big-hitter in […]

Starling murmuration

What Lies Beneath – Emergence in Games Systems

14th January 2021 Ludogogy 0

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 […]

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Beer and Trippples – Games as Cybernetic Systems

14th January 2021 Ludogogy 0

Nowadays, when most people hear the term ‘Cybernetics’ they will tend to associate it with computer technology, possibly in a sci-fi or futuristic context.  However, the term existed well before the age of digital computing. […]

World in a Book

Worldbuilding in Game-based Learning Environments – A System and a Tool

13th January 2021 Eduardo Nunes 0

The Fun Paradox While playing videogames, children seem to reach immersion levels not found anywhere else. They go to sleep thinking about how soon they can be awake again so they can keep playing. While […]

Holmes and Watson

What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning

13th January 2021 Erik Agudelo 0

Computer games, good computer games, well-designed computer games, are learning games. These games constantly collect data about the game session and the player. Based on these data the difficulty of the challenges is adjusted and […]

Green Economy Board Game

Board games to engage in systems thinking

12th January 2021 Wilian Gatti Junior & Beaumie Kim 0

Systems thinking is one of the competencies that enable us to understand the complexity of global and networked structures and their outcomes. The interconnectivity between countries, companies, and people creates a net of relationships that […]

Systems Thinking

What’s your System?

12th January 2021 Dave Eng 0

Big systems, small systems, fast systems, slow systems. Pretty much everything, everyone, and everybody that we work with is part of system: large or small. But how do those systems work and how do they […]

Rock Paper Scissors

A dialogue about creating a new game using two different lenses

12th January 2021 Corrado de Sanctis 0

When you are playing (in) a game you are actually interacting with a system. Understanding how the system is working  is the basic nature of System Thinking. So, a player is a natural Systems Thinker. […]

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The missing introduction to wargaming experiences

9th November 2020 Natalia Wojtowicz 4

When my first book about wargaming came out (Ludogogy review) I received an urgent remark from my Father. He told me I have started with a guide on an advanced experimentation, but I have missed […]

M C Escher Quote

Why game design matters to me – Part II

21st September 2020 Thomas Ackland 0

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 […]

Gamified certification

Increasing Engagement by 2000% Using Games

17th September 2020 Mohsin Memon 0

I run a certification program in which I help trainers and facilitators learn how to use a multiplayer game to facilitate their own virtual learning experiences. Because of the multiplayer and virtual nature of my […]

Video Game Abstract

Unlearn what play should be

15th September 2020 David Monreal Becerra 0

Until I was 17 years old, I was a hardened gamer. Platformers, strategy, beat’em up, FPS… I loved them all. But one day, without really knowing why, I got bored of video games and ended […]

Failure is cool

2048 – Making Failure Motivating

15th September 2020 Ludogogy 0

This article is part of a series I wrote some time ago when I was in the process of designing a business sustainability boardgame and was documenting the design process. A couple of days ago […]

Castle Dice

Including only what is needed – Lessons from Castle Dice

14th September 2020 Ludogogy 0

This article is part of a series I wrote some time ago when I was in the process of designing a business sustainability boardgame and was documenting the design process. At the moment, my absolute […]

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