Last year we released the District Game-based Learning Implementation Guide to help administrators, Technology Directors, and Curriculum Specialists introduce game-based learning at a district-wide level. Since then, we’ve heard...
If you’re like me, you can’t put a VR headset on without dreaming about the possibilities for learning. From a design perspective, VR affords the opportunity to place the learner in any conceivable environment, and more importantly, to make it interactive. That’s profoundly...
We recently reached out to some of our game-based learning educator allies and asked them how they use games in the classroom, and they had a lot to say! So much in fact that we’ve compiled their insights into a shiny new eBook for your perusal...
Over the course of 10 years of making more than 100 educational games, we’ve developed some fairly strong opinions about what makes a great learning game - from mechanics, to learning objectives, to organization, we have a lot of specific ideas about best practices…
Character concepting is always a fun exercise - whether your character is serious, silly, or something in between, bringing a new character to life is a thought-provoking endeavor with lots of little details to consider...
Industry awards are a great way to create recognition and credibility around your learning game. External validation like industry awards and press placements will open doors to...
At the recent Games for Change conference, Constance Steinkuehler displayed Gartner’s time-honored “hype cycle” and posited that learning games are somewhere on the Slope of Enlightenment...
Situational choices encourage the player to look at their choice as a piece of a larger context - in other words, a good choice is more than the literal options in front of the player, but one that asks the player to account for the shifting variables around those options...
