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Category Archives: game design
My first Construct 2 game This is straight out of the beginner’s tutorial, which took me around an hour to work through – but it is particularly well written and highly user friendly. I’m actually using this program in the … Continue reading
Coursera Gamification MOOC – Written assignment 3 – Gamifying e-books.
Now that Kevin Werbach’s Gamification MOOC is done and dusted, I thought I might share the final assignment that I put together for it. It centres around making use of his six step gamification design model and how this might … Continue reading
HighScore House – Gamifying chores – update
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was going to try out HighScore House – an online system for tracking and rewarding kids (and parents I guess) for household tasks. We’re still tweaking the system – and it’s … Continue reading
Posted in activities, alternate reality games, ARG, casual games, epistemic games, fiero, fun, game design, games based learning, gamification
Tagged chores, gamification, highscore house
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GamesMOOC – Participant contributions (Part 1)
I left out the wealth of participant contributions in my recent overviews of the first five weeks of GamesMOOC and I’m not entirely sure why. I suspect it was because there are so many great contributions, ideas and opportunities for … Continue reading
Posted in activities, blogging, collaboration, elearning, fiero, flow, fun, game design, gamesmooc, MOOC
Tagged edugames, fiero, flow, fun, game design, game mooc
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GamesMOOC Week 5 – Alternate Reality Games
Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) was the focus for Week 5, those games that spill over into “real life” and make use of a range of delivery platforms to present clues to puzzles that generally are intended to be solved in … Continue reading
Posted in activities, alternate reality games, ARG, game design, gamesmooc, gamification, orientation
Tagged ARG, extrovert, game design, game dynamics, game mooc, introvert
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Gameglobe – free? adventure game creator
The world of game creation tools for every day users just keeps getting more interesting with the upcoming launch of Gameglobe, tied into Deus Ex: Human Revolution developer Square Enix. (They also make a little underground series called Final Fantasy) … Continue reading
GamesMOOC Week 3 – Gamification
While it has become quite faddish in education circles and keenly taken on by business (think loyalty programmes for one) which has prompted something of a backlash (you’re doing it wrong), there are still a lot of elements of gamification … Continue reading
Posted in badges, game design, gamification, immersion, missions
Tagged game design, gamification
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