If Monopoly is not a good role model for game design, how could modern ideas and developments improve it? What might Monopoly look like if it had been designed today? I'd like to show how we could reconstruct Monopoly as an enjoyable game and also as a learning game - one that families could play over the holidays but that could also teach them a thing or two.
Read MoreMany video games intentionally include design elements crafted to keep people playing as long and as often as possible. Tactics like these naturally make infinite games much harder for players to walk away from.
Read MoreJuego Studios - Game Development and Game Art Studio Juego Studios is a renowned game development and art design service provider, known for creating a wide range of games such as RPGs, MMORPGs, puzzles, and action games.
Read MoreEven before its official inception in 2015, her Minneapolis-based gaming company 7 Generation Games was a side hustle focused on developing software and gaming platforms that served the needs of underrepresented populations.
Read MoreIn games, we play with our imagination and we experience situations in an environment which is safe for trying and experimenting with something new, without high risk, Perlak said.
Read MoreThe Worlds 2023 event, which is still largely unknown to the general public, provides an opportunity for video game law specialists such as ourselves to explain just why competitive video games should be taken more seriously.
Read MoreIt's my annual holiday guide to some of my favorite recent tabletop games, that's board games and card games. In the last couple of decades, a very important development has happened in the world of tabletop and card games and that is the oncoming, we might say, unstoppable flood of cooperative games where you and I are playing together.
Read MoreKwesi Christian always possessed a deep love for video games, but it was not seeing enough stories like his own that pushed him to create one himself. Having moved to the United States from Ghana at the age of 5 in 2000, Christian said he was enamored with action-packed stories of superheroes, Power Rangers and Transformers.
Read MoreKids often want to play more video games and use screens more during vacations. Rather than trying to restrict access to screens during winter breaks, consider allowing more freedom for gaming as a method to distinguish play time from work time. Beyond the fun of the newest toy, there are many other reasons to consider allowing your child more access to gaming time during school vacation.
Read MoreThere are hundreds and thousands of books and video series and podcasts intended to make you a better writer. I've also struggled with becoming a better writer.
Read MoreFrank Lantz has taught game design for over twenty years at New York University, where he helped create the NYU Game Center and served as the founding Chair of the Game Design department from its inception until 2021.
Read MoreNow consider the following question which pertains more to what we are going to talk about in the rest of the article, "Can some games be Satanic?" Duh! "Games and satanic?" if that is what comes in your mind right now, you are at the right place! However, to get a some clarity about our question, we need to have a proper definition of games and satanic, and the definitions are as follows :-.
Read MoreFrom ancient times to the modern day, board games have been a source of entertainment, education and intellectual stimulus for centuries. We take a look at the fascinating history of board games.
Read More"Video games are the pre-eminent art form of this century," Brock Henderson, video game developer and designer, said.
Read MoreSome leaders in the gaming industry want to push back against that narrative by creating games that encourage users to form communities as part of the gameplay. The idea is that by fostering more human interactions, games can promote positivity and openness, bringing people together instead of pushing them apart.
Read MoreThe popularity of games and play-based learning has waxed and waned in the traditional American classroom, according to Alicia Miller, a science educator from Evans, Georgia, who's always used "Hands-on" activities in her classroom.
Read MoreWelcome to an open house of the MIT Game Lab, where play and experimentation are joined by serious inquiry about the gaming industry and its role in society. The Game Lab's work is designed to help students think critically about the games they've often been playing for years without considering the values they might project, and to prepare them to engage in thoughtful design practices themselves.
Read MoreWith its high empirical performance in big perfect and imperfect information games, Student of Games is a significant step toward developing universal algorithms applicable in any setting. To demonstrate how far artificial intelligence has progressed, a computer was taught to play a board game and then improved to the point where it could beat humans at the game.
Read MoreJones says, "a game is releasing in two months' time and there's been no communication about accessibility issues or accessibility functions, I really wish the developer would just communicate and say 'here they aren't.' That would be great."
Read MoreA new algorithm called Student of Games is capable of winning different board games, such as chess, Go, Texas Hold'em poker and Scotland Yard.
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