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Onboarding Your Team Through Play

Onboarding a new team member involves navigating the complexities of learning names, roles, processes, and preferences. Traditional onboarding, often a checklist-driven and information-heavy process, may not be the most engaging approach. Bethany Carr suggests adopting a more interactive method by incorporating games, activities, and simulations into the onboarding process.

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Sam Barlow's guide to making narrative games

At our recent GI Academy Live event, Sam Barlow of Her Story, Telling Lies and Immortality fame laid out his thoughts on creating narrative-centric video games. In his talk, which was aimed at inspiring and giving advice to students, Barlow first explained the specificities of narrative in games, exploring why the medium differs from other forms of entertainment, before sharing his own core ideas for building stories.

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Dr. Sunny Hallowell Releases Neonatal Intensive Care Virtual Gaming Simulation

Villanova University M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing Associate Professor Sunny Hallowell, PhD, APRN, PPCNP-BC, a pediatric nurse practitioner and an expert in breastfeeding and neonatal ICU nursing, has developed the Neonatal Intensive Care Virtual Simulation Game, the first of several such games she hopes to develop as a 2021 Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Scholar.

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