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18 – Why Video Games Are Good For You
It is crystal ball time again. This time we are talking about the future of education. The claim: Game designers = Teachers. The presenter: Tim Hart. An instructional or learning technologist at the University of Maine in the USA. His presentation (with the title probably somewhat inspired by Steven Johnson’s book “Everything Good is Bad [...]
17 – Creativity Techniques for Game Design and Game Idea Generation
Annakaisa Kultima is a game designer, game researcher, and very creative person, who works at the Game Research Lab of the Finnish University of Tampere. She focuses among other things on game idea generation with digital games. She uses general lateral thinking and idea engineering approaches to develop game specific ideas (similar to the German [...]
15 – Epic Win: Why Games Are The Future of Learning
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 [...]
13 – Gaming it: What User Experience Designers can learn from Game Designers
It’s Sunday, the 13th, 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 [...]
9 – Four Keys To Fun: Designing Viral Distribution
Here is a deck of slides that you should not miss when talking about player emotions and fun. Nicole Lazzaro‘s four fun keys should not be missing in any good game design collection for that matter. She runs a company called XEODesign, which does player experience design research. In her presentation, she talks about the [...]
2 – What’s in a game? Using game design questions and techniques to create engagement in web applications
For December 2, I have chosen a very nice presentation from Nadya Direkova, who is now a Senior Interaction Designer at Google. When working for Razorfish, she gave a presentation about applying game design techniques for web designers.
