The Lego Group's investment arm, Lego Ventures, has spun out a new game venture called Light Brick Studio as an independent company. The spinout is the first such move for Lego and will allow the new startup to further explore the future of digital play.
Read MoreDrops made a game out of language learning, and it’s paying off. The company said it has hit 25 million users and reached a revenue run rate of $10 million. This year, the Tallinn, Estonia-based company has seen an increase of 7.5 million users.
Read MoreJordan Leak has been a fan of gaming since he picked up his PlayStation 2 for the first time and is now playing competitively. "Esports is basically competitive gaming, and I teach a gaming concepts course," he said.
Read MoreWhile board games are largely recreational in scope, there's also a sense that comes up when playing some games that the experience might help expand one's mind in other avenues of life as well.
Read MoreThe closure of school and college campuses since the outbreak of COVID-19 posed fundamental challenges to the traditional teaching and learning methods.
Read MoreGamification meets sustainability in an app developed between Italian sustainable brand Maakola and blockchain certification service provider Genuine Way.
Read MoreIn Roblox's May survey of teenagers, 30 percent of respondents indicated their parents were "Showing more interest in their online lives, including learning about and playing Roblox with them." Despite my concerns about screen time, the more my kids and I played together, the more I saw that online gaming was affecting our family in positive ways.
Read MoreThe idea that video gaming improves your mental health and brain function is still relatively new. Most people still think that video gaming causes lethargy and social disengagement. The reality is quite different, especially with new generation games that bring communities together. In this article we outline some of the ways console gaming is beneficial for your mental health and can improve your brain's function.
Read More"Dark Souls came into my life at just the right time," Hamish Black, the creator of the YouTube channel Writing on Games confessed in a video. In a 2010 issue of The Sun, pop star Miley Cyrus called for a ban on video games because they allegedly fostered depression, especially in young people.
Read MoreGamification - the use of game elements in a non-game context - offers a great way to keep customers engaged, loyal and repeat buyers. First it is necessary to look at how gamification can be implemented as part of a marketing campaign. A good example of how to make customers interact with brands is gamification through connected experiences.
Read MoreExperiential-learning games then complement the classroom by allowing adults to reinforce learning by doing. How do game-based learning approaches typically work? What do they involve? The most important factor is to determine what the learning objectives of the game are.
Read MoreGame mechanics can also make gameplay more, or less, fun. Don't assume you can define the mechanics at the start of your game design journey and then never touch them again. It’s critical to test and tweak game mechanics. You may think a game mechanic will be great, only to find out via play-testing that it is hindering the players’ perception of your game’s “fun factor.” Or worse, actually hindering the learning experience.
Read MoreWe learning specialists may have found ways to make learning more attractive again. Game-based learning means using a game in such a way that learners achieve one or more learning goals. You should match any use of game mechanics against these learning objectives.
Read MoreWhile you will almost certainly encounter these in commercial games, I've seen some learning games fall flat because the designers are ignoring some fundamental mechanics. When designing a learning game, you'll want to build these mechanics into the design. It's a way that players can show their prowess at playing the game.
Read MoreThat it launched story-based coding game 'Odinga Adventure' on Google Store and iOS AppStore. In 'Odinga Adventure,' extraterrestrial duck brothers 'Odinga' and 'Oringa' from the Rainbow Planet try to float the rainbow by collecting flowers on the earth.
Read MoreGamification and game mechanics have been introduced into the health care arena to help engage and motivate us. Neatly packaged as fun and sparking a competitive spirit, programs that incorporate game mechanics often come equipped with communication tools to compete against other users and feature points, levels and leaderboards that allow for comparisons between different people and/or teams.
Read MoreStratbeans, a leading AI-based digital learning solutions provider has developed a unique approach to enhance employees' skills while working remotely. Game-based learning solution aims to motivate employees and help them enhance their skills and quality of work through its engaging approach.
Read MoreThe Education for All project is creating an interactive, game-based learning platform for K-through-12 students. The project, titled Education for All, is one of four awardees of Wichita State University's Convergence Sciences Initiative, an effort to bring together the intellectual curiosity and strengths of faculty and students from a range of disciplines and give them the support to develop research programs that drive the diversity and growth of the Kansas economy while addressing global challenges.
Read MoreUsing a mobile phone while driving is already forbidden in many countries across the world, so theoretically, once you get behind the wheel, you should forget about calls and text messages unless you enable Bluetooth or rely on a hands-free solution.
Read MoreJoel Baraka can only imagine how much more challenging the COVID-19 pandemic has made learning in the Ugandan refugee camp in which he grew up. It prompted him to start a fundraiser to cover the costs of mass producing the board game he created for children in the camp.
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