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IU students and faculty ‘gamify’ technical training in partnership with Navy engineers

IU students and faculty ‘gamify’ technical training in partnership with Navy engineers

"Games have a unique power to stick with people," said Mathew Powers, a media arts and science lecturer at the Luddy School in Indianapolis whose research areas include educational games, or "Edutainment." "If you're dealing with very difficult, intense subject matter, you need a good vehicle. You need to hold people's attention because that's how they're going to remember things." Powers and fellow lecturer Todd Shelton co-teach NEWM-N 436, a highly independent, project-based game production course that matches students with "Clients" to create unique games that address a wide range of experiences.

gameDave EngAugust 18, 2024game, inspired, projectComment

All gamers welcome Riot Games explains range of roles in video game design

All gamers welcome Riot Games explains range of roles in video game design

"A game development studio has different roles, skills and types of people to make the types of games that we make, operate the business, distribute the games around the world, market and publish the games, translate them, and run eSports tournaments and events," said Mark Yetter, who earned an A.B. in computer science at SEAS in 2008 and is now game design director at Riot.

gameDave EngAugust 13, 2024game, design, goalsComment

"Serious Game" Group Practices German, Explores History Through Video Game

"Serious Game" Group Practices German, Explores History Through Video Game

"Serious Game" Group Practices German, Explores History Through Video Game

gameDave EngAugust 12, 2024game, digital, educationComment

How game making is shaping theatre and exhibition spaces

How game making is shaping theatre and exhibition spaces

How game making is shaping theatre and exhibition spaces

gameDave EngAugust 11, 2024game, video, theatreComment

Video Game Rewards Study Reveals Gamer Good Samaritans

Video Game Rewards Study Reveals Gamer Good Samaritans

Gamers who chose to be good Samaritans while playing through a zombie apocalypse were more likely to be prosocial post-game, according to new QUT research. The aim of the research was to determine the impact in-game rewards for helping have on post-game prosocial behaviour.

gameDave EngAugust 8, 2024game, reward, researchComment

Game helps older adults be 'proactive' to prevent chemotherapy-associated nausea, vomiting

Game helps older adults be 'proactive' to prevent chemotherapy-associated nausea, vomiting

Researchers at University of Central Florda developed an educational game to help older adults with cancer manage chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting. The game - which takes about 15 minutes to complete - asks patients to make decisions for an older avatar to prevent nausea and vomiting.

gameDave EngJuly 30, 2024game, adults, nauseaComment

The Board Game As A Narrative Medium

The Board Game As A Narrative Medium

To read a narrative is to engage with an alternative world that has its own temporal and spacial structures. The rules that govern these structures may or may not resemble those of the readers' world." Storyworld means the mental model of these alternative worlds, which are also simultaneously transmedial, such that the Star Wars films, comics, books, board games, etc.

gameDave EngJuly 27, 2024game, trauma, progressComment

Exploring immersive sim game design with Raphaël Colantonio: “You basically let the player cheat the game”

Exploring immersive sim game design with Raphaël Colantonio: “You basically let the player cheat the game”

Check out our interview with one of the industry's most prominent creative minds for a quick dive into the immersive sim genre and Raphaël's approach to game development. Oleg Nesterenko, Game World Observer: I believe that one game design concept has grown to be almost synonymous with Raphaël Colantonio and Arkane, which is "Immersive sim," so let's start with that.

gameDave EngJuly 18, 2024game, immersive, playerComment

These Pits Carved Into Rocks in Kenya Might Be Ancient Game Boards

These Pits Carved Into Rocks in Kenya Might Be Ancient Game Boards

Yale archaeologist Veronica Waweru was conducting fieldwork in Kenya last summer when she received a tip from a local: Tourists were removing hand axes from a site inside the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. Another site caught her eye during her visit: rows of shallow pits carved into a nearby rock ledge. Waweru thinks the pits were game boards once used for mancala, a family of two-player strategy games.

gameDave EngJuly 17, 2024game, wildlife, familyComment

Video games are not just a commercial gold mine – they can be a force for good

Video games are not just a commercial gold mine – they can be a force for good

In recent months, two gamers have made waves globally. Teenager Willis Gibson, a competitive Tetris player from Oklahoma in the United States, became the first person to beat the original Nintendo version of the game.

gameDave EngJuly 5, 2024game, plater, teenagerComment

Learning games can achieve more with less: a love-letter to simplicity in game design

Learning games can achieve more with less: a love-letter to simplicity in game design

A lot of people participating in learning experiences are not gamers. Learning game designers often are, and that familiarity can lead us to underestimate how complex our designs might seem to somebody who doesn't, as a rule, play games. Here's what Love Letter does well, how it keeps things simple, and what I think it can teach learning game designers.

gameDave EngJuly 1, 2024game, learning, designersComment

A Discussion on Tabletop Game Player Aids – Ask The Bellhop

A Discussion on Tabletop Game Player Aids – Ask The Bellhop

Long time Tabletop Bellhop fan Ryan Peach asks: What are your thoughts on fan-created game aids? Are they table clutter, or do they actually help? Are they better for new players or will veterans also benefit? If you use them, in your experience, which aids or kinds of aids help the most and least? Are there games that you wish had aids, but do not yet? Are there games where you feel they aren't needed? Has a player aid like a rules summary ever replaced a games rulebook for you? Disclosure: Some links in this post are affiliate links.

gameDave EngJune 24, 2024game, aids, playerComment

A Critic’s Guide To Game Design By Inspiration

A Critic’s Guide To Game Design By Inspiration

Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, and so many good games were inspired by something else-Metroid drew inspiration from Alien, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night drew inspiration from Super Metroid, and The Legend of Zelda clearly inspired Darksiders.

gameDave EngJune 18, 2024game, inspired, gameplayComment

From besting Tetris AI to epic speedruns – inside gaming’s most thrilling feats

From besting Tetris AI to epic speedruns – inside gaming’s most thrilling feats

The Oklahoma teen beat the game by defeating level after level until he reached the "Kill screen" - that is, the moment when the Tetris artificial intelligence taps out in exhaustion, stopping play because its designers never wrote the code to advance further.

gameDave EngJune 7, 2024game, community, MinecraftComment

The Hidden Worlds of Monopoly

The Hidden Worlds of Monopoly

The Hidden Worlds of Monopoly

gameDave EngJune 5, 2024game, monopoly, historyComment

This Slay the Spire-like made to teach a dev’s daughter maths looks like the best edutainment game I never had

This Slay the Spire-like made to teach a dev’s daughter maths looks like the best edutainment game I never had

If you're like me, you probably have at least one treasured memory of being allowed to play an edutainment game at school under the guise of learning.

gameDave EngJune 3, 2024game, play, schoolComment

The $200 Billion Video Game Industry Is a Climate Opportunity

The $200 Billion Video Game Industry Is a Climate Opportunity

In 2019, the United Nations even formed an alliance with dozens of gaming companies across the $200 billion industry. Roughly one in five said they watched or heard about climate change via game play or streaming, and one in eight said they took action in real life based on what they'd learned.

gameDave EngMay 30, 2024game, industry, streamingComment

Ural Federal University Students Develop Game Immersing Players In The Medieval History Of Slavs

Ural Federal University Students Develop Game Immersing Players In The Medieval History Of Slavs

Young scientists of the Ural Institute of Humanities and students of the Engineering School of Information Technologies, Telecommunications and Control Systems have developed and launched a historical educational game "The Man of Medieval Rus in the Abyss of Partition: in the Service of the Knyaz and the Motherland".

gameDave EngMay 23, 2024game, medieval, historyComment

Deep Dive: Making a manual for every learning style with The Banished Vault

Deep Dive: Making a manual for every learning style with The Banished Vault

gameDave EngMay 17, 2024game, manual, productionComment

What Is Gamification In Fashion?

What Is Gamification In Fashion?

Fashion Houses Enter the Gaming Universe: A New Frontier for Design and Interaction From Runways to Game Screens: How Major Fashion Brands Are Conquering the Virtual World In a dramatic shift accelerated by the pandemic, major fashion houses have ventured into the digital realm, notably marking their presence in the world of video gaming.

gameDave EngMay 16, 2024game, video, charactersComment