role-playing — News in Games-Based Learning

How Dungeons & Dragons Helps Build Empathy

Perhaps board games and role-playing games like D&D tap into the very human need to sit around a campfire and tell stories to each other.

gameDave EngMarch 28, 2024games, role-playing, collaborativeComment

The power of role-playing games for deeper learning experiences

Now, as an educator, Gadd uses D&D as a pathway for deeper learning experiences for his students. When COVID-19 shut down in-person learning experiences, Gadd and co-workers at his former school system, Oldham County Schools, decided they wanted to create something fun, free and engaging for students stuck at home on virtual learning.

role-playingDave EngJune 22, 2023role-playing, educational, gamesComment

America's government is older than ever, so we made this 'Dungeons & Dragons'-inspired tabletop role-playing game to show you why the system favors gerontocracy

For several weeks, Insider has explored the reality of America's aging government. Congress is older than ever, and America's young people are not represented in the body at the rate they otherwise should be.

dungeons & dragonsDave EngFebruary 13, 2023Games, role-playing, America, Dungeon and Dragons, Government, incentives, newsComment

Gamifying theme parks

People like to play games of all kinds, and people like rides. Many theme parks decided to add pay-to-play interactive water geyser effects to their water rides. These allow guests on dry land to drop money into a slot and time it just right so that a geyser of water would trigger and soak the riders in a passing boat on a water ride.

gamesDave EngJune 4, 2021games, role-playing, gamifyingComment

The Role-Playing Game That Predicted the Future

Now a much wider audience is finally getting a good look at what Pondsmith has been imagining this whole time, with a new video game adapted from his life's work.

role-playing gamesDave EngFebruary 22, 2021role-playing, RPGComment

Tabletop roleplaying games are the answer to pandemic social gatherings

A great solution to solving the problem of having fun with friends during this time can be overcome with tabletop role playing games, a genre of boardgames that might look different from the familiar family games that many may be used to seeing and playing.

role-playing gamesDave EngNovember 25, 2020table top, role-playingComment

Role-playing games are breathing new life into the history classroom

Dr. Walker was introduced to RTTP games through her colleague Gretchen Galbraith, the dean of the school of arts and sciences at SUNY Potsdam and vice-chair of the board at the Reacting Consortium, the academic association responsible for developing and publishing the RTTP series.

reacting to the pastDave EngJune 26, 2020role-playing, classroom, reacting to the pastComment

Facebook's role-playing game teaches AI to complete tasks by reading descriptions

Demonstrating once again the potential of video games to advance AI and machine learning research, Facebook researchers propose a game-like language challenge - Read to Fight Monsters - in a paper that the International Conference on Learning Representations 2020 accepted.

artificial intelligenceDave EngMay 11, 2020facebook, artificial intelligence, role-playingComment

Role-Playing In The Virtual Classroom

Virtual role-playing gives learners the possibility to interact with each other, as well as to be in each other's shoes, which is extremely important when a classroom is made up of people from varied multicultural backgrounds.

virtual, role-playing gamesDave EngApril 28, 2020role-playing, virtualComment