As a formalised style of play, games are well suited to education. There are many opportunities to use games in higher education, a growing pedagogy around their use, and loads of great ways to integrate games.
Read More
In a country that loves games such as chess and Scrabble - even fielding a world champion Scrabble team - Ogbuagu noticed a lack of Nigerian-made games. With nothing to do, "Eventually, we started playing tabletop games." At the time, he was not sure how to create games, so he used cardboard, stones, and dice from an old Ludo game to make a dice rolling and card drafting game for him and his friends.
Read More
Financial literacy experts also say that whether kids really pick up money lessons through video games depends largely on how parents talk with them about their online experience. How to build a financial safety netIn his online classes, Mazzu raises the issue of how to keep money safe with his students.
Read More
To promote financial literacy among middle school-aged students, Ally Financial recently teamed up with rapper Big Sean and popular computer game Minecraft to create "Fintropolis," a world within the game that weaves financial lessons into the experience as players navigate through it.
Read More
For thousands of years, people have been using board games as a great way to pass the time with friends and family. Ancient board games are still played today and are a great way of bringing friends and family together. I've carefully selected the board games in this list, either for their notability or because they inspire board games today.
Read More
It's no wonder then that some of the world's best educational children's games are made there as well. How do you go about designing games for five-year-olds? HABA, the German toymaker with bestselling board games like First Orchard and Dragon's Breath, may have the answer.
Read More
The process of deconstructing a dish to create your own interpretation is similar to "Deliberate play" for learning designers who want to apply game design to their work.
Read More
One way to achieve this is through gamification and serious games. Serious games are designed to educate and nudge a change in behaviour and not just entertain. Critically, games are also played voluntarily and require skill rather than luck.
Read More
Alqahtani's ambitious proposal-inspired, in part, by personal experience with the stressors of the pandemic-won her a behavioral science award in this year's Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair, an annual competition for ninth through twelfth graders administered by the Society for Science in Washington, D.C. Her prototype aims to address the problems of stigma and inaccessibility that, psychologists say, present substantial roadblocks to teens getting mental health care.
Read More
The quarterbacking problem or "Alpha gamer problem"1 is a well-known phenomenon in tabletop cooperative games in which one or more alpha player(s)2 dominate the decision-making of the game against the consent of the other players.
Read More
Using well-designed games and other engaging, inquiry-based activities to replace standard practice exercises, such as flashcards or worksheets, extends students' understanding of math as well as improves their attitude towards mathematics.
Read More
For today's post, I want to expand more on this and talk about what difficulty and the experience mean from the consumer's POV. Reasons for Playing If you've studied game design at all, the Bartle player type chart has probably been discussed.
Read More
A role-playing board game has been drawing a lot of attention on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo as it focuses on school bullying and is based on the developer's personal experience of being bullied for 10 years.
Read More
A group of Austin High School students don't just play computer games, they design them.
"We were also able to get controllers, mice, headsets and game design software," said Bachuss, who is in her seventh year teaching game design classes at Austin.
Read More
But financial literacy experts also say that whether kids really pick up money lessons through video games depends largely on how parents talk with them about their online experience.
Read More
Now a new mentorship program, led by a blue-ribbon panel of industry experts, hopes to diversify tabletop gaming's cadre of designers as well.
Read More
How do you go about designing games for five-year-olds? HABA, the German toymaker with bestselling board games like First Orchard and Dragon's Breath, may have the answer.
Read More
A game jam - a contest where participants try to make a video game from scratch - was held in July at the Dundee-based university, with various teams submitting ideas for an interactive game inspired by CCS. A judging panel, including figures from leading Scottish game design studios Junkfish and Biome Collective, selected the winning entry.
Read More
The quarterbacking problem or "Alpha gamer problem"1 is a well-known phenomenon It is different! Game analytics offer an exciting array of new possibilities for everyone in game studios! Game analytics can change the face of game development.
Read More
So far we've been talking about combat damage being dealt in a standard means, but deck damage, also known as "Milling" is usually done in other ways. If you try and deal damage to an object which is important to me, I may use these same abilities to prevent that damage as well, I don't necessarily have to be the target myself.
Read More