Learning about systems using games.
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 […]
Article Tag: systems thinking
What Lies Beneath – Emergence in Games Systems
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 […]
Beer and Trippples – Games as Cybernetic Systems
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. […]
Worldbuilding in Game-based Learning Environments – A System and a Tool
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 […]
What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning
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 […]
Board games to engage in systems thinking
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 […]
What’s your System?
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 […]
Engagement and Learning as Emergent Properties of Systems Modelling: What we can Learn from Crusader Kings III
Your mileage may vary, but I remember history at school as long, boring lists of kings and queens. I had no interest in it. My sole motivation in showing up to any of the lessons […]
A dialogue about creating a new game using two different lenses
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. […]