The Acagamic

She says: “Let’s make the future!” Jane McGonigal is a pro­lific alternate-reality-games designer and leads game research and devel­op­ment at the insti­tute for the future. Occasionally, she also gives really cool pre­sen­ta­tions with stim­u­lat­ing ideas in them. Nobel prizes for game devel­op­ers? Sure thing. And again, we are talk­ing about using the power of games for [...]

It’s Sunday, the 13^th, which means we will be speak­ing German today. Sorry, folks — but this pre­sen­ta­tion was sim­ply too good not to post it in the advent spe­cial. Fellow game researcher and UX designer, Sebastian Deterding, has some amaz­ing, well-structured, aes­thet­i­cally designed slides on the lit­tle things that UX design­ers can pick up [...]