Warren Spector recently gave a talk at the DevGamm gaming event in Cascais, Portugal. The 68-year-old game designer has left his mark across gaming with immersive sim games, which give players a wide array of choices. Spector has strong opinions when it comes to game design.
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence has been blazing a trail in the past several years, beating skilled human players in strategy board games like chess and go. The research team, led by Professor Raffaello D' Andrea and Thomas Bi, a PhD candidate, has built a robot AI using the popular labyrinth marble game to make informed decisions on potentially successfully behaviour by planning for the future.
Read MoreIn an innovative approach to enhance medical knowledge and skills, MedPage Today launched its first-ever educational game center called the Break Room. The platform features several games, including Wordosis, Wordectomy, and the daily game, Spell Check-Up. MedPage Today, a leading medical news website, is the brain behind this innovative initiative.
Read MoreWe still too often talk about video games as escapes - little playthings that are big business but often considered not as serious as their media peers. Our critics and reporters select their favorite TV shows, movies, albums, songs, books, theater, art shows and video games of the year.
Read MoreTraumatic brain injury can cause severe cognitive impairments, making rehabilitation challenging. Researchers started a retrospective study to design a customized serious game-based cognitive rehabilitation system for brain injury patients.
Read MoreBritish schoolchildren are set to learn about the Israel-Palestine conflict thanks to a computer game devised in Denmark. Global Conflicts: Checkpoints lets players take on the role of journalists reporting from the conflict.
Read MoreA cow-handling game based on a flight simulator is helping US dairy farmers to train their staff in low-stress cow handling. "Games offer engagement and a chance to apply a concept and skills.
Read MoreI wanted to share the playtesting journey of that game as a way to encourage other designers to be brave and bold in their playtesting. The initial playtesting session included undergraduate students in our university's Game Studies and Design program.
Read MorePerhaps 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.
Read More"It's not every day that high school students get to make their own video games with the help of professionals in the gaming and tech industry. High school students in East Baton Rouge Parish will be awarded that opportunity with the introduction of a new after-school game design program offered by Southern University.
Read MoreBusiness instructors don't always have access to manufacturing equipment integral to a process we need to teach or might lack real-world experience with using it. Lean manufacturing is a widely used philosophy that focuses on eliminating any "Waste", an expense or effort expended during the manufacturing process that doesn't add value to the consumer.
Read MoreIt's a long guide, so feel free to use the table of contents to skip to the section that interests you ? Game balance is the ongoing game design process of adjusting the composition of game mechanics, rewards, challenges, tuning, timing and telegraphing to create a fair and meaningful gameplay experience with the right amount of difficulty.
Read MoreScientific discovery games could be the stepping stone to creating medical breakthroughs, according to Cooper, an associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University. Associate Professor Seth Cooper from Northeastern University's Khoury College of Computer Sciences is helping shift those perceptions.
Read MoreHow you implement randomness - or whether you use it at all - can make a big difference to a learning game or playful learning experience. Here's a practical low-down on the different kinds of randomness and uncertainty and how you could introduce them into your learning game, or playful learning experience.
Read MoreA video game will soon be available to help dairymen train employees how to properly handle cows in their operations. "We hired a local video game programming company in Madison that specializes in educational video games," she explained.
Read MoreIn Battle Bird-Bot Blowout, Peri Glick, a senior majoring in film and media studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, deploys vintage 128-color NTSC graphics and a nearly 50-year-old programming language to craft a new game for the iconic Atari 2600 console.
Read MoreVideo games are a rapidly growing, profitable facet of the entertainment industry, with revenue exceeding U.S. book publishing, music, and North American sports combined, according to Grand View Research.
Read MoreVideo games have long been maligned as mindless media-shallow entertainment for kids. After Kickstarting a video game journal called Lock-On and selling a few hundred copies, things snowballed, and today the journal has sold more than 50,000 copies.
Read MorePaper Apps DUNGEON is a notebook-based dungeon crawler that you can play anywhere at any time-it only requires a pencil and a die. While DUNGEON is but one of Brinton's many games, DUNGEON's elegance in its game and product design attests to Brinton's ability to create.
Read MoreWhile my new year resolution was to create more content, there were two main events that have kept me from achieving that promise: my own wedding and an event me and my team designed with LNL Agency for Coca-Cola! How are they related? Well, actually I landed the second job thanks to what me and my wife designed for our wedding, and it was the learnings we got from doing the first that lead us to probably one of our most successful experiences in the field of life-event gamification.
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