Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute A number of chapters in my upcoming book talk about how to review games, and I go into my 4PEG model in detail. I review 7 games in the book. Here’s another. This review is of an educational game, and … Continue reading
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Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute For anyone who’s ever wondered what it means for a game to be 1st person, isometric, top-down, etc, here’s a handy illustrated guide: Types of Game Perspectives | Mozzastryl. Here are some simplified images: 1 person likes this post. Like … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes As learning moves online, trigger warnings must too Dana Ruggiero, Bath Spa University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. When I was a first-year student at university, our class of 300 students watched Jodie … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute Amit’s Game Programming Information “What’s on this page? I’m interested in producing complexity out of simple parts. This page contains bookmarks that I collected while working on games; I did not write most of the content linked from here. As … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m putting these here, so I’ll be able to find them again. Create Games with Construct 2 – Scirra.com  An HTML 5 Game creator. I haven’t tried it myself so can’t comment on how good it is. Looks interesting though. … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutes Thought I should upload a few of my more recent talks. This one is from the CNIE conference in May 2014 that I did with Dana Ruggiero. [P] Presentation Ruggiero, D. & Becker, K. (2014) The Virtue of Failure: Designing … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute Putting everything that has to with learning and games under one name obscures the complexity of the field. We should use TWO terms: Game-Based Learning for the learner’s perspective, and Game Pedagogy for the teacher’s perspective. bookblog:game-based_learning_vs_game_pedagogy [Magic Bullet Games]. 1 … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute Another sneak peek to my book. This one outlines instructional theories relevant to GBL. bookblog:dgbl_instructional_theories [Magic Bullet Games]. Be the first to like. Like Unlike … Continue reading