MVHS teachers implement video games into their curricula to increase student engagement. As the digital age continues to enhance education, teachers have increasingly strived to utilize classroom games as a method for community engagement between students.
Read MoreLet's say you're creating a learning game around crisis management. How much detail should you put into this? Should you try to simulate every aspect of a crisis? Or should you simplify things and focus on key elements-and if you do, how can you make sure the experience is still useful? How can you make sure that people are still learning the key things they need to learn?
Read More"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.
Read More"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.
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Read MoreGamers 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.
Read MoreHenry Low '22 discovered a passion for teaching and mentorship as a student at UC Davis. Low is the founder and CEO of GenomiGo, an organization dedicated to harnessing technology to help students engage with STEM. One of his projects is Punnett Farms, an educational game that was inspired by his genetics class at UC Davis.
Read MoreResearchers 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.
Read MoreTo 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.
Read MoreCheck 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.
Read MoreYale 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreGame designers generate the conditions for flow via a fundamental design concept called the core gameplay loop. In return receives feedback that Updates their mental model and starts the loop all over again The core game loop is the element of the experience that one does most often.
Read MoreMarit Tronier Halvorsen, Head of Target Groups at DN Media Group, shared with delegates at WAN-IFRA's Digital Media Asia conference, how they managed to attract a sizeable new audience with a stock market game. DN tapped into the youth's interest in games to create Fantasy Funds in 2020, an award-winning game that replicates the stock market.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreThe death of Klaus Teuber, creator of popular board game Catan, marked the passing of a board game giant. The Settlers of Catan was not the first time a board game touched on colonial or imperialist discourses.
Read MoreLong 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.
Read MoreThe introduction of technology has profoundly changed the way that knowledge is taught and learned. Technology has become an essential aspect of education, especially when it comes to digital learning. Here's a look at how innovations are transforming and reshaping the landscape of education.
Read MoreImitation 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.
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