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Mission-based levels serve several purposes within the design of a game. One purpose is to keep the game space manageable. Developing a game in which a player wanders through one vast level accomplishing hundreds of objectives and interacting with dozens of non-player characters is a daunting programming task and is intimidating for the player. Additionally, […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →While not all games have a story narrative behind them, storytelling is an essential part of the gamificaiton of learning and instruction. Simple games like tic-tac-toe are not guided by a story. Neither are games like hide and seek, freeze tag or word searches. But a surprising number of simple games have more story behind […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Time is an element that has many dimensions as it relates to instructional game design and game play. The most obvious is to use time as a motivator for player activity and action. As soon as that timer appears in the upper corner of an instructional video game screen and starts to count down (or […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →To many, the difference between a game and play is the introduction of a goal. Sure, you and your friends can casually splash around the pool and swim a few laps but when someone says “I bet I can beat you to the other end of the pool” suddenly play time is over and a […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Congratulations to ProtonMedia who recently (this week) won the Enterprise Connect 2011 Innovation Award. Here is some of the information from the ProtonMedia blog. Enterprise Connect has selected ProtonMedia for its prestigious Innovation Showcase….the Innovation Showcase competition recognizes four innovative start-up companies that are taking enterprise communications and collaboration to a new level. The show’s […]
Continue Reading →I was looking for some resources on Gamification and found a talk by Sabastian Deterding who presented a fasinating and thought provoking Google Talk called “Meaningful Play: Getting Gamification Right” He makes a few excellent points about Gamification: 1) Having a make-believe story wrapped around an experience and adding rules and challenges makes an experience […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Over at The Escapist, they have a series of short clips called Extra Credit related to video games and how they are becoming an art form. Simple but provocative videos. This one is particularly interesting as it describes how narrative can be embedded within the mechanics and game play of a game without involved scripts, […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →One of the hallmarks of the instructional systems design process is the use of formative evaluations to judge the effectiveness of the instruction as its being developed so that it can be improved as it is created. A major part of that process is a small group evaluation. A small group evaluation within the instructional […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →I was first introduced to the idea of an interest curve in the fascinating and informative book The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses The book describes an interest curve from a gamer perspective but I think we should also consider it from a learner’s perspective. Much of this post is based on […]
Continue Reading →Recently, I wrote an article for ASTD’s Learning Circuits titled Barriers to Adopting Games in Corporate Environments. The concept behind the article is that there are some major reasons why games, which should be readily adopted as efficient, effective learning tools are not being adopted. So, here is the list of the reasons why they […]
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