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Game-based Learning
What is an alternate reality game, or better known as an ARG? It’s not Virtual Reality, nor is it Augmented Reality. It’s something else!
Gamification Research
The grind is always seen as tedious and repetitive, but what if you changed it so that it became one of your strongest tools in gamification?
A great many people suffer from shyness & social anxiety. Perhaps using gamification to enable change in your life can help you overcome these challenges.
Rewards are some of the most difficult aspects to get right in a game or gamified environment. We should take the time and effort to make authentic rewards.
Let’s tackle with you, a way to gamify your life by creating a journey and go on a search to discover your strengths and weaknesses!
author: @aestranger Reading time: 10 minutes Understanding a User’s Journey in your gamified experience? When discussing anything to do with games and gamifying an experience, the conversation will invariably always need to go to the topic of the User’s Journey. And everyone will also typically ask themselves or the creator a list of important questions. How
Many people believe that anything to with games shows a lack of intelligence. This is UNTRUE, games can actually help you become more intelligent!
Survival games occupy a large section of the gaming world nowadays – How successful are these games at gamifiying the experience of survival in life?
A research piece exploring the various aspects of game-based learning and what each offers if you wish to use it within your own offerings.
Storytelling
The next area in our series on 360o video will be looking at how you set the scene for a world where the viewer can look in any direction they want.
360o Video has been around for about 3 years now, maybe even 4 if you’re in the visual industry and had the budget to start early.
As the world becomes more global, we need to expand our concepts of what storytelling is & as virtual reality game experiences increase and enter our lives…
Storytelling in virtual or mixed reality is the next great frontier for human narrative. Perhaps we can learn something from narratives preceding it.
Gameful Design
Progression systems are always a tough choice when you create an experience for your players. Here we’ll explore which are good to us for your experiences.
Goal creation or setting goals is something you always hear in businesses, schools, or at the start of a new year. But they hardly work, let’s change that!
Why can’t we use a method to break down and simply our lives to better realize our aspirations? How can First Principles thinking gamify your life?
You may have noticed in the media nowadays that the world is becoming a little bit harsher with every passing day. Compassion, caring, and empathy…
Trauma affects a great many people in a variety of ways, but can gaming and VR experiences help with treating these traumatic experiences?
The debate about whether games are social or not has been going on for decades. The question of whether gaming isolates people or brings people together.
Fighting any disease is tough. It’s hard for the individual and it’s hard for those around them. One disease that everyone struggles with is cancer.
This is a slightly shorter piece for you about something I’ve enjoyed for the past few years & has become more & more prominent in the public eye; eSports.
Filmmaking
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