Archive for Games
Recently I came across the paper “Learning from Games: HCI Design Innovation in Entertainment Software” from the folks at The Interaction Lab at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. The paper describes several ways that ideas from game interfaces can be provide clear benefits to users in non-game applications. I immediately thought of self-paced e-learning […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Working in the space of 3D virtual immersive environments (VIE) is a small, but dedicated group of people who are creating some really wonderful and powerful learning. The other day I had a chance to virtually catch up with Andrew Hughes who is the president of Designing Digitally, Inc. and an instructor at the University […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →I am involved with a National Science Foundation project designed to teach middle school students various Science, Technology, Engineering and Math concepts. You can learn more at the web side Gaming2Learn. I am leading the design area of the team and other people are programming and piloting the process. Here is a video showing one […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →At its simplest form, a game is just a set of defined rules. There are rules indicating the maximum number of players who can play a game, rules describing how to score points, rules indicating what is allowed in the game and, in the case of digital games, rules that apply to writing the code […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →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) →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) →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 →Understanding the concept of “Lean Manufacturing” can be a little tricky and counter intuitive. So here is a vignette discussing why playing a lean “game” can help solidify the concept and make clear the ideas that lean is advocating. It is one thing to read about lean manufacturing techniques, it is another to see them […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Any market this big is bound to bring in the big boys and Google is seriously looking at getting into the educational game business on an App basis. According to the article Google Pushes Education Software Through App Store Google seeks to lure more educational developers and is stepping up efforts to generate revenue from […]
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