Explore the history that dates back to the 1960s art movement. Look at case studies exploring a variety of flashmobs, co-op art projects, political protests and more. Learn the steps to use in designing your own happenings.
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These new courses have helped students get over the fear of coding.
Learn how to Code your own video game easily with Twine and Scratch.
Two new courses on The Game Beyond School.
When we look at the Concentric Game Design Method taught in the Basic Game Design Course, we see clear divisions of the layers, making them interchangeable. The core elements of the concentric model are Goals, Rules (Mechanics), Declarative Layer (Narrative), and Social Layer. Many of these layers can be changed around, like a new wrapping of an onion.
What is the difference between #SeriousGames, #Gamification, and Entertainment Games? How are they used to change behavior? We take a look at the different types of #GameDesign methods used for solving real-world problems with games.
In 2012 I set out to teach the secrets I had learned, of Serious Game Design. Since then thousands of students have taken my Basic Game Design Course online so far. Since I launched it years ago, I have had lots of great feedback about how it helped inspire and change people's lives. This makes me so excited to announce the following news.
The 2020s have not been kind for mental health. Suicides are on the rise around the world as we begin to find ourselves in a Mental Health Crisis. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and boy do we need it. As I've told my students over the past 2 years, "So many people are walking around with PTSD, and they don't even know it." But how can Games help? …
How to use Game Design to Solve your Failed New Year Resolution
Every year on New Year's Eve, millions of people make a promise to themselves they will not keep. It's not because they are bad people, or cheaters, or have some other deep psychological traumas from childhood that keep them from achieving their New Year's Goals. You may be reading this and thinking to yourself, yeah, I've been there. Well let's use Game Design to solve your problem!
photo by Tim Mossholder
Many fans of The Big Lebowski are familiar with the game Bowling. However, the history of the game has quite a few surprises, from being a religious game, to being illegal for many decades. Let's look at Bowling, the History and evolution of the game that dates back 5,000 years.
One of my favourite films, is Tron. Not just because Jeff Bridges "The Dude" stars in it. Not because it was the first film to use CGI. I loved it because of the GAMES! For those of you that don't know, Tron was a film back in 1982 where Jeff Bridges gets sucked into a computer and is forced to play games. If you haven't seen it or the sequel, I won't spoil it further for you. Needless to say, they have these 'discs' which they use all the time in the games. I've loved tossing around a frisbee because it gives me the feeling like I'm Flynn in Tron. Enter Disc-Golf…
CheckiO is a game designed for collaborative education. It gets coders from around the world together to learn from each other in an online game environment. Different challenges or tasks are published to the system by the players. Other players then try and solve the request with their code. Others then challenge the code and improve on it making everyone learn new and faster ways to code.
Give CheckiO a look if you want to improve your coding skills and be a code master.
