On 10th October 2020, Sarah from Ludogogy facilitated a panel discussion on how games and gamification could be used to address the wicked problems of the Climate Crisis. This is the recording of that session.
The Board Game Summit ran as a virtual conference from 14th to the 20th September, with six days of themed interviews with industry experts, and a panel wrap-up discussion on the last day. If what […]
There are a number of frameworks which can be used when designing games for learning. One that was specifically designed to address the particular challenges of designing games for learning is the Design, Play, Experience […]
I bought a copy of ‘Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges and Leaderboards’ the very day it became available. I had been a fan of Yu-kai Chou’s Octalysis framework for some time by then, and I […]
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 […]
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 […]
The events of this year have provided us with plenty of examples of both the best and worst of human behaviour. The way that communities rallied round to help the most vulnerable when the virus […]
This month’s theme invites to think about others, or perhaps more specifically ‘the other’. To consider ‘Diversity’ we must first think about ourselves; how we are the same as others, and how we differ from […]
The Book of Dyslexic Motivation in Pictures, by Will Wheeler, is a game of two halves, both of which have lots to teach us about becoming a successful professional (dyslexic or otherwise). The first half […]
Some time ago, I was busy designing a game which was going to support learning objectives around entrepreneurship, financial decision-making and strategic and operation decisions. As many of us do, when designing, I turned to […]
Ordinary World – What was the situation before the journey began? Joseph Campbell was born in White Plains, New York in 1904 into an upper-middle-class Irish Catholic family. His father was a hosiery importer and […]
I’ve been neglecting Coursera recently, and to be honest, I’m not sure why. Back in 2012, I was pretty constantly taking courses on the platform – sometimes two or three at a time! But, looking […]
A ‘Zoom Game’ is a game which is designed to be run for a group of people, who will play it while meeting through the video-conferencing platform Zoom. The idea grew out the experience of […]
Here are definitions of some of the terms used in Corrado De Sanctis’ article Collaboration gaps enhanced by a game? Yes, we can – for those of us who are not experts in Agile / […]
Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interaction among rational decision-makers. The ‘toy games’ which are a feature of this study are used in fields like economics, social sciences and in theories of […]
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