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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 company [...]