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Why Board Games Are Good for You

Why Board Games Are Good for You

As we get older and start to experience adult life – with all its busyness and responsibilities, plus a lack of time – the things we used to do for fun as children can easily fall by the wayside. In some cases, this doesn’t matter too much, but when it comes to board games, it seems a shame. There are many reasons why board games and tabletop games are good for you and why you should continue to play them as you get older. Read on to find out more, and it might persuade you to find your old games or even start playing new ones.

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Gamification in UX Design: Designing Fun Experiences for Serious Situations

Gamification in UX Design: Designing Fun Experiences for Serious Situations

It's the manifestation of care about the users, as the brand tries to make the product UX fun and entertaining, like a game. Usually, it involves animations and illustrations that improve UX. Types of game mechanics in UX design. UX designers use various types of game mechanics to spice up mobile and web experiences.

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How Therapists Are Using Tabletop Games to Help People

How Therapists Are Using Tabletop Games to Help People

Tabletop games allow their clients to reconnect with their imaginations, as the structure of the games provide some comfort and encourage people to start thinking about what could be rather than what is.

tabletop gamesDave EngMarch 12, 2023Games, tabletop, therapists, mental health, therapy, clinical, imagination, clients, newsComment

Gamification In Scrum Is Changing The Game

Gamification In Scrum Is Changing The Game

In our view, there's a problem if we want to think of applying gamification in tech companies, especially in SaaS companies that are under pressure to innovate above all things.

gamificationDave EngMarch 11, 2023Gamification, scrum, tech settings, businesses, workplace, skills, reward systems, newsComment

Hybrid Games: Method for more interactive cities

Hybrid Games: Method for more interactive cities

What Aristoteles meant is that games are for kids and fill our free time but are also a method of relaxation from leisure. The main reason to call it hybrid games, the game action takes in the digital world, but it also has a connection to the public space.

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Educational Technology: Gamification in Education

Educational Technology: Gamification in Education

Regardless, some may say that back in 1912 with the creation of the American Cracker Jack snack, gamification also came to life.

gamificationDave EngMarch 9, 2023Gamification, education, technology, trend, classroom activities, learning, user-friendly, newsComment

Playing Against Radicalisation: Why Extremists are Gaming and How P/CVE Can Leverage the Positive Effects of Video Games to Prevent Radicalisation

Playing Against Radicalisation: Why Extremists are Gaming and How P/CVE Can Leverage the Positive Effects of Video Games to Prevent Radicalisation

While the exploitation of gaming content and spaces by extremist actors is a relatively new phenomenon and research in this area is sparse, it has become clear that extremists are seeking to utilise video games, gaming platforms, and gaming-related content for their ends.

serious gamesDave EngMarch 8, 2023Gamification, gaming literature, gaming-related, video game, engagement, newsComment

Gamification: A simple process of making the mundane more exciting

Gamification: A simple process of making the mundane more exciting

Despite potentially being viewed as something of a taboo frontier across many sections of society, the challenge of making casino play more social is one that has been, and will continue to be, tackled by many across the space.

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How Games are Changing Our Understanding of War

How Games are Changing Our Understanding of War

It's not the first time the museum has examined the relationship, having hosted Reel to Reel: A Century of War Movies back in 2016.

War, gamesDave EngMarch 6, 2023Games, device, preference, privacy, war, experience, services, personalized, newsComment

Giving memory a lift: Can games and brain stimulation do it?

Giving memory a lift: Can games and brain stimulation do it?

Prof. Gail Eskes explained working memory to Medical News Today, and why it is so important. "Your working memory ability is important for all kinds of activities," said Prof. Eskes, "Such as reading a newspaper, doing math at a restaurant to figure out a tip, making decisions, and problem-solving."

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How gamification will help train and encourage employees

How gamification will help train and encourage employees

If your employees aren't picking up new skills as quickly and as thoroughly as you'd like, it may be time to have them play - or at least feel like they're playing. The career-builder website Zippia found that employees experience a 60% engagement increase with gamification on average.

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What is (and isn't) gamification? How brands are building interactive communities

What is (and isn't) gamification? How brands are building interactive communities

Interactivity is spearheading the future of customer experience, and gamification is the sharp end of that spear. Many brands aren't delivering on the gamification part because they're treating the audience as a target and not inviting them to be part of the campaign/gaming community.

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How Gamification Has Taken Over, Brewing An Ancient Beer Again.

How Gamification Has Taken Over, Brewing An Ancient Beer Again.

If you're a person who enjoys beer, you've likely been aware of the craft beer boom of the last couple of decades. India Pale Ales, or IPAs, have become some of the most popular types of beer brewed in local breweries.

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Inspiring a new generation of justice-centered video game designers

Inspiring a new generation of justice-centered video game designers

Although many people criticize video games associated with violence, founder of the Games for Justice youth summer program Husain Rizvi '22 thinks that this is not where we should be focusing our attention.

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Game-based learning to become $55 billion industry in next eight years

Game-based learning to become $55 billion industry in next eight years

Motivating students to learn through playing games and solving topics boosts the game-based learning market growth during the forecast period.

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Gaming Vignettes Support Teaching Gender-Affirming Care

Gaming Vignettes Support Teaching Gender-Affirming Care

LGBTQ2+ people face notable health disparities and nurses can help improve care and access by providing inclusive, non-judgmental, gender-affirming care.

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Computer games may be a key to ecological learning, study says

Computer games may be a key to ecological learning, study says

The purpose of the study was to test how the game would affect players' understanding of the "Critical zone"-the CZ in the game's name-which is the area of land ranging from the bottom of groundwater to the top of trees, critical to all life on the planet.

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Game Designer Abigail Rindo Likes To Play Around At Work

Game Designer Abigail Rindo Likes To Play Around At Work

With enough characters to rival a Lord of the Rings novel, the Candy Crush Saga is a "Match three" puzzle game largely centered around matching three or more candy pieces to save the Candy Kingdom.

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Ways to Make eLearning More Effective Using Gamification Tools

Ways to Make eLearning More Effective Using Gamification Tools

What is Gamification in eLearning? Gamification in eLearning essentially refers to the practice of introducing game-based tools and elements in the training modules to make the learning experience more engaging and effective for the employees.

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The Benefits of Using Games in Leadership Training and Skills Development

The Benefits of Using Games in Leadership Training and Skills Development

Surprisingly, you can learn a lot more in an hour of play than in a one-year conversation. The endless benefits of games in different sectors have made gaming activities, especially video games, important learning methods currently.

games, contributed article, leadershipDave EngFebruary 23, 2023games, leadership, training, contributed article, skills developmentComment