A serious game developed within the European Erasmus+ framework, helps to develop soft skills. With feedback built into the game design, players can improve their understanding of decision-making and acquire key soft skills such as problem-solving, stress management, effective communication, and teamwork.
Read MoreUsing games to learn real-life skills can both be entertaining and educational, formally called the "Edutainment" system. We have recently stumbled upon one of EA's latest published patent, dubbed "EDUTAINMENT OVERLAY FOR LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN VIDEO GAMES," which seeks to add an Edutainment overlay in its titles using artificial intelligence technologies.
Read MoreThe researchers employed game refinement, the motion-in-mind model, and AI simulations to assess the impact of sudden movements in card games with incomplete information.
Read MoreTabletop roleplaying games have had a massive resurgence in the past few years, becoming a popular pastime for both newer and older generations. A group of mental health professionals, Geek Therapeutics, want to use those qualities to help people improve their mental health.
Read MoreFor Shang-Hua Teng, theoretical computer science has never been purely theoretical. Now 58, Teng is a professor of computer science at the University of Southern California and a two-time winner of the Gödel Prize, an annual award recognizing groundbreaking theoretical work.
Read MoreTwo months ago, she launched the Girls Make Games Scholarship Fund, a charity to improve access to education for young women looking to have a career in the games industry. "Girls Make Games [is] a program that exposes girls to video game development and encourages them to explore careers in gaming, but also to use gaming to figure out what they want to do with their lives," Shabir says.
Read MoreIf you spend more than an hour a day playing video games, that's 5 percent of your life. We want to know whether playing video games can increase cognitive skills: In other words, can game playing make you smarter? We have performed experiments, conducted meta-analyses of research literature and even produced a couple of books: Computer Games for Learning and Handbook of Game-Based Learning.
Read MoreA "Good story" in a video game is usually a coherent narrative with characters and events, ideally one that's augmented or enhanced by gameplay. It's a kind that only exists in games and one that exists in every game.
Read MoreFrom comprehensive options and customization to more inclusive design practices, disabled players can enjoy more games than ever, across a variety of genres and platforms. A few years into his stint at PlayStation, Tisserand met accessibility consultant Ian Hamilton, the co-director of The Game Accessibility Conference, or GAConf.
Read MoreIf you spend more than an hour a day playing video games, that's 5% of your life.
Read MoreAsimov also ran ads for Avalon Hill historical wargames and I was intrigued by the hex maps and chit counters of those games. The art of wargame map-making and gameboard design is the subject of a weekly series on the wargaming site The Players' Aid.
Read MoreThe collaborative nature of the games allowed for the transfer of biases, while also eventually contributing to a negotiation of homogenic boundaries, permitting some positive changes within the contemporary community, even as some players cling to the ideologies of marginalization present in the foundations of early TTRPGS. The first ten to eleven years of TTRPGS from their inception with Dungeons and Dragons in 1974 offered insights into the influence of the social unrest of the Long Sixties on the development of TTRPG spaces and consequently the influence these early games had on the TTRPGs that followed.
Read MoreEverything is data now Some people tell Hon that there's always been gamification.
Read MoreNow, I hastily swipe past instead. Yet even quick fingers haven't stopped me noticing the prevalence of a curious little card game with a distinctive red and white design. Launched by model Koreen Odiney in 2018, the game requires participants to ask each other a range of questions, organized in three tiers.
Read MoreLike previous years, even Nintendo's most well-regarded games were tossed into that category - even ones that were reviewed better than some of the titles competing for Game of the Year. More and more, it feels like games aren't getting top-level recognition unless they fit into a "Mature" mold.
Read MoreJill Wilson, the savvy game designer and current CEO and founder of Robin Games, is one of those people. Majoring in games at the University of Southern California wasn't an option that existed in 2001, so Wilson studied storytelling through television development instead. Right before graduating, she received a path-altering email from her career counselor.
Read MoreVideo games are able to foster intellectual growth within children differently than more traditional learning methods. Field Day Labs creative director Sarah Gagnon said video games are ideal resources for immersive education.
Read MoreA new book published by Thames & Hudson and an exhibition now on display at the Museum of Modern Art respectively map the interactive worlds of video games and investigate how people conceive of space and time through interactive design.
Read MoreWhen my eight-year-old son told me he was making his friends happy and fighting bullies in a video game, I was curious. He told me about Kind Kingdom, a game his school librarian recommended.
Read MoreDo you like gaming? Games are not only fun but can also help to learn more about all kinds of subjects - including complex matter such as environmental systems. An international research team has investigated whether learning about the "Critical zone" via a digital serious game can affect adults' systems thinking about the environment and create support for policies to protect the environment.
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