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Hands On: Melodics turns learning musical concepts into a game

Turn learning core concepts of music composition into a seriously addictive game with Melodics. Don't worry - Melodics is here to gamify all the essential core concepts and teach you how to keep rhythm, play popular styles of drum beats, and even how to improvise like a pro. If you've ever played a rhythm game, like Dance Dance Revolution, Guitar Hero, or Rock Band, you'll already understand how Melodics works.

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Rules are meant to be broken

Early in the design of Cartographia, we had a problem about players hoarding cards: it's a bad strategy, but every now and then a player would try it and ruin the night for everyone else by limiting their access to specific cards, slowing the game economy, and opening their own options to such degree to cause monumental AP. All of that would turn a brisk 75 minute game into a 3 hours slog.

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Why brands are moving from gamification to gaming

In the pursuit of stand-out, engaging propositions, loyalty marketers have been turning to gamification, but that is now evolving into actual gaming for some of the world's biggest brands. In The WARC Guide to Marketing in the Gaming Ecosystem, Natasha van der Pas, Senior Strategist at Wunderman Thompson, explains that the motivation to participate in a loyalty programme closely resembles that of gaming - it's about the thrill of the win.

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Video games can add to kids’ learning during COVID-19 pandemic

Keeping in line with existing curricula, I will highlight how five subjects can benefit from video games in the classroom: English, math, science, history and physical education. A recent survey from the United Kingdom's National Literacy Trust has shown that more than 35 per cent of children who play video games believe they are better readers; the study also found that more than half of the participants read and write materials related to gaming at least once per month.

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Four Reasons Why Games Are Great For Adults Learning a Language

As a teacher or trainer, you might worry that adult learners feel games that are childish and misinformed. Adult learners of a second language are usually highly motivated, but it doesn’t mean their time in class should be boring and only include traditional methods of teaching. Adult learners can have more inhibitions than children and may worry about making fools of themselves in front of their peers. Games that aren’t silly, and that have relevance to their learning can help adult learners of a second language.

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14 Best Strategy Board Games For Teaching Employees Strategic Thinking

Another reason why board games are so popular is that there is a board game for everybody, no matter what age or gender. For this discussion, we will focus on 14 of the most highly recommended and effective strategy board games that can actually teach strategic thinking to employees, entrepreneurs and business people.

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AI in Education: An Initiative to Assist Student in Learning 

It becomes difficult for a teacher, to selectively aid student in learning, especially when they also feel the burden of collective performance. To address this issue, an artificial intelligence is designed by the researchers from North Carolina State University, from predicting the position of educational games in inducing learning amongst students.

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4 Great Games that Teach Real-Life Skills

Sometimes, sitting in a darkened room pushing pieces of plastic around can help prepare you for the big bad world. How to Lose…and come back from it: Magic The Gathering One of the worst feelings in the world of board games is being outmatched by your opponents in Magic. Whether you have been trampled by monstrous growth, stymied by a blue player, or just outplayed by an opponent with better card synergy – losses can be tough.

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