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Issue: November 2020 - The Wargames Issue

Welcome to issue eight of Ludogogy Magazine – The Wargames Issue

This issue looks at wargames from a number of different perspectives. Our authors this month have delivered learning using wargames within the military, but also in business and civilian applications too.

This issue has been a great learning curve for your editor, who really hasn’t had much to do with wargames in the past. But I think that will all be changing. The potential for wargames for a wide variety of learning applications across the board really emerges from the articles we have for you this month.

Explore:

  • Off-the-shelf wargames for learning strategic thinking
  • How business wargames might invigorate the military perspective
  • The repopularisation of commercial wargames
  • A history of wargaming
  • Much more

We are now accepting articles for the next two month’s issue ‘Systems Thinking’ (deadline 27 Dec) – How can games be used for systems learning? In what ways can games be seen, and designed, as systems? What does systems thinking bring to the practice of learning, and games, design? etc., and ‘Futurism’ – deadline 28 February – Designing games to look to the future? What does the future of games-based learning hold? How can games help us to practise foresight? etc.

Send proposals or drafts to info@ludogogy.co.uk

Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stay Playful

Warhammer game in progress

The Personal Benefits of Wargaming

15th November 2020 Martin Domville 0

I get a “night before Christmas” feeling the day before I go wargaming. My mind will race about the games I am going to play, obsessing about army building, where my strengths and weaknesses are, […]

Wargaming Experiences Book cover

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 […]

1914 Board Game

The Re-popularization of Commercial Wargames

8th November 2020 Maurice Suckling 1

From their commercial birth in the 1950s, board wargames became immensely popular in the 1970s and 1980s. Annual sales in 1980 were 2.2 million units. But then they became less popular. In 1991 annual sales […]

Scythe game

Gamification of Strategic Thinking with a COTS boardgame

5th November 2020 Thorsten Kodalle 0

Editor’s note – while Ludogogy is most definitely a magazine and not a journal, and we normally publish relatively short articles, I thought that this more academically written article, submitted by Thorsten Kodalle, had a […]

Students playing X-wing

EdUTeam Wargames – Table-top wargames to train business school students

5th November 2020 Philippe Lepinard 7

The work presented in this article is part of the EdUTeam educational and research project to assess the relevance of leisure games in higher education (https://eduteam.fr/). Our text is particularly interested in table-top wargames that […]

Lego office with stormtroopers

Start on Day 3: Liminality in High-Stress Wargames

5th November 2020 James 'Pigeon' Fielder 0

“Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the first day of the crisis response wargame! Please note that the crisis actually started three days ago. Half of your computers are down, a third of your employees […]

Wargame Players

Wargaming: The Challenges of Preconceptions 

5th November 2020 Anthony Sharman 1

Imagine that inevitable moment, usually with a mug or a glass in hand, that someone I’ve just met asks me what I do for a living.  It used to be so simple. “Oh, I’m in […]

Red vs Blue robot

Business Wargaming….for an uncertain world

5th November 2020 Matt Stanton 0

Against the dramatic backdrop of the COVID-19 virus outbreak around the world, how can businesses develop a better understanding of their risks and uncertainties moving forward and stress-test their future opportunities? Wargaming can help organisations […]

Red team and blue team

From Battlefield to Boardroom….. and back again!

29th October 2020 Chris Paton 0

Wargaming, red teaming……. these terms can often seem misleading. Much of it stems from the fact that the military heritage behind them gives them a credence all of their own.  Having served in the Royal […]

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