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 [...]

User Experience Recently, my research was fea­tured in an arti­cle by Harry Brignull for the UX com­mu­nity, enti­tled “UX for videogame design: Gameplay Research”, where he describes suc­cinctly what some of my col­leagues and me are doing in game sci­ence, where our main focus is to under­stand play­ers from an empir­i­cal research per­spec­tive. Digital Game [...]