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Game-based Learning
Gamification Research
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
Gameful Design
Games should have a level of difficulty to allow for meaninful choices. In this piece we look at difficulty in games through the lens of the game Sekiro.
As we near the end of 2018, it may be worth doing a reflection on what 2018 was like before we start looking at what 2019 may hold for us.
Frostpunk is the latest game from developer 11bit Studios, where you are the leader of a small colony of survivors in a post-apocalyptic, ice age world.
This week’s game tools; we come to our final set, those that revolve around purpose & the use of narrative to create context for your players.
Belonging and being part of something is one of the strongest motivators that you can use to engage your players in your game or the gamified environment.
In this part of the game tools series, we’ll be looking at value & loss avoidance. Please do check out any of the previous game tools blogs.
This week lets look at how mastery mechanics can help engage your players. The tools have been split into different aspects, but they all work together
In this piece we’ll have a look at exploration and decision-making, and how these can be used to engage your players in your game or gamified experience.
Filmmaking
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