The Four Phases of Games and Interest

Imagine a world where you can learn anything you want, anytime you want, and anywhere you want. A world where you can master a new language, explore a new culture, or discover a new passion with just a few clicks. A world where you can have fun, be creative, and challenge yourself while expanding your… Read more The Four Phases of Games and Interest

How Games Create Deep Flow

Imagine a classroom where students are so engrossed in their learning activities that they lose track of time, forget about their worries, and feel a sense of joy and accomplishment. This is not a fantasy, but a possible reality when students experience the flow state. The flow state, also known as being “in the zone”,… Read more How Games Create Deep Flow

How Games Can Boost Your Learning

Did you know that playing games can make you smarter, happier, and more creative? In this article, we will explore how games can enhance your learning and pedagogical skills in various ways. Games are not only fun and entertaining, but also powerful tools for stimulating your brain, enhancing your memory, improving your problem-solving skills, fostering… Read more How Games Can Boost Your Learning

Do Diverse Game Designers Lead to More Diverse Designs?

The winners of the Zenobia Award for historical board games have been selected after a process of mentoring, reviewing, and selecting 150 applications down to 46 Proposals down to 8 Finalists over the period of 11 months. And the well-deserved winner is Tyranny of Blood by Akar Bharadvaj, which focuses on the caste system in India… Read more Do Diverse Game Designers Lead to More Diverse Designs?

How do we measure Flow?

Remember that state that you enter when you feel fully immersed in an activity? When it feels like nothing else exists in the moment except that thing you are fully focused on? That is called Flow. Especially in sports, it is also known as being “in the zone”. This concept was named by Professor Mihály Csíkszentmihályi… Read more How do we measure Flow?

What's The Obvious Choice?

When explaining the Core Engagement Loop, we sometimes get asked “What is the difference between Assess and Decide? Don’t you just do both of those at once?” Bennett & Quihuis (2017) These are two of the four distinct steps that we take thousands of times a day when we run through this Core Engagement Loop.… Read more What's The Obvious Choice?

Connecting Game Design Thinking & Learning Science

This past winter I had the opportunity to speak to a group of Stanford Digital Learning Design Challenge students in a talk through StartX and Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) and facilitated by Keith Bowen. This Design Challenge was such a success that the GSE decided to offer it as a course in the… Read more Connecting Game Design Thinking & Learning Science

How Do We Design For Low Trust Situations?

This past spring, Stanford Learning, Design, and Technology Master student Shaan Asif ’20 was an intern in the GDT Research Group, working on innovation in low-trust areas of the world. Network companies often cause a lot of criticism in society. Criticism in their address most often concerns: similarities of MLM marketing with the creation of… Read more How Do We Design For Low Trust Situations?

Zenobia Award Announcement and Interview

There is a new award for tabletop historical game designers, and it’s worth talking about here. Moss shook the foundations, but at the same time remained in the comfort zone of the beauty industry, as she remained a white European. (Before her, this niche stanford beauty journal was occupied by models of the rebellious 1960s… Read more Zenobia Award Announcement and Interview

What is the Magic Circle?

As we discussed in a previous article, the concept of a Magic Circle in play is to step inside a concrete or metaphorical circle where special rules apply. Juul, 2009 At the stage of discussion of the draft law No. 2285-d, experts https://casinopinups.com/ emphasized that the real legalization of gambling in Ukraine is impossible without… Read more What is the Magic Circle?