Equatorial, a Romanian company specialized in alternative training, announces the official launch of its game "Bona Fides" - the first game built to develop skills required for the jobs of the future identified by the World Economic Forum such as critical thinking, complex decision making, problem-solving, logic and creativity in adults.
Read MoreCreated by a development team from Scotland by the name of Stormcloud Games and published by National Westminster Bank, Island Saver is a free adventure game aimed at kids ages 6 to 12 that teaches them several financial concepts like taxes, foreign currency, and more, all the while being actually fun to play.
Read MoreGaming and e-sports are becoming big business and an increasingly attractive proposition for brands looking to connect with consumers. Globally, e-sports have been projected to attract revenues of $1.1bn, according to research from Green Man Gaming.
Read MoreTo get to the fun game playing part in the afternoon session, the kids must go through the morning coding camp.
Read More"We were playing a game and it kept just crashing and not giving kids time to answer the questions, and on the leader board, all of these ridiculous names that hadn't been entered into the game as players were coming up: 'gayboy27', 'Covid-19' - offensive names," she explains.
Read MoreThis April, the University Museum of Bergen, excavated the remains of a small Early Iron Age grave cairn at Ytre Fosse, Western Norway. The location is spectacular, overlooking Alversund and the “Indre Skipsleia”, a part of the old shipping lane, Nordvegen, – which gave Norway its name. The whole area is dotted with monumental grave mounds on both sides of Alversund, symbols of an Iron Age political landscape and the power and control of goods and travels along the Norwegian coast.
Read MoreGames have always been social, from the first multiplayer board game in ancient Egypt to the installation of Pong! in a bar in Sunnyvale, California, to the arcades and neighborhood gatherings of the 1980s.
Read More"We're really excited to be working with Endless Network and XPrize on Code Games and can't wait to see the innovative games that come in from around the world as kids are inspired to shape the technology in the world versus being shaped by it," said Alan Gershenfeld, president of E-Line Media, in an email to GamesBeat.
Read MorePart of a research study supported by the National Institutes of Health and led by auditory neuroscientist Lori Holt and psycholinguist Seth Wiener, the game could help scientists understand how second language learners learn a new language, and could even help them learn it faster.
Read MoreMaria Rauschenberger, PhD, and a team of investigators developed the web game, MusVis, to measure the differences in the interactions of children with and without dyslexia while identifying both visual and musical elements.
Read MoreThese quality assurance exercises are just one facet of a project management effort that seems almost unfeasibly competent: there's a whole workflow system for laying out new districts, construction codes to keep style and quality consistent among the swarm of builders at work on the city, and regular staff meetings over discord to co-ordinate the mammoth effort.
Read MoreThe thesis of gamification of learning, thus, is to incorporate game mechanics to motivate students. For Tade Samson, this is what he hopes to achieve for K-12 students with his edtech startup, Quizac.
Read MoreHow fast is fast, and what's driving the pace? While better computer chips are key, AI research organization OpenAI thinks we should measure the pace of improvement of the actual machine learning algorithms too.
Read MoreHackers and hobbyists are finding ways to adapt controllers so that anyone can play and become a part of the gaming community, whether they are veterans who lost limbs, or children who were born with special needs.
Read MoreVirtually every action we take in a social setting can be interpreted in the form of a game, whether we meant it that way or not. Now, gamification is being applied to the workplace, as a means of boosting employee productivity.
Read MoreThe School of Game Design is a great place to take your first steps. With courses for developers of all ages and skill levels taught by experienced instructors, this interactive online course contains 120 hours of video to help take you from aspiring game dev to creating multiple short levels and games of your own.
Read MoreWe collect a list of games based on global pandemics, which cannot be compared with reality, but which are still very interesting stories.
Read MoreThe ludic framework works through rhetorics of play as a frame of reference; rhetorics of possibility and invention as a means of production; the acceptance of transformative failure; and engages with digital communities to further knowledge through social affinity while being grounded in constructionist learning theories.
Read MoreThis activity of developing and designing an outdoor game demonstrates a student showing agency for their own learning, and being active and engaged socially with others, especially their family.
Read MoreEven unsuccessful candidates who have a pleasant experience at the different stages of hiring might not only view the organization positively, but also might be more likely to reapply in the future and recommend the company to others, thereby boosting the company's reputation and its ability to source high-caliber candidates.
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