Behavior-Change Gaming – An interview with Michael...
Jim Cummings on Aug 28, 2012As part of MP’s coverage of last March’s GDC conference, I discussed a few interesting sessions on the growing application of games, game mechanics, and player psychology to behavior change projects and interventions. One such session included...
Gee, what a future: A response to James Gee’s talk...
Kenneth Rosenberg on Apr 16, 2012A more detailed summary of James Gee's lecture can be found in the companion piece titled: Problems in education, as solved by James Paul Gee As a student, it’s incredibly distressing to hear James Gee speak about the future of the traditional...
Problems in education, as solved by James Paul Gee
Kenneth Rosenberg on Apr 16, 2012A few weeks ago, James Gee visited Indiana University and gave a talk on the foundering education system—with its failing standards and increasing disjointedness with most society—and proposed deferring to the natural state of knowledge in this...
GDC: Game Optimization through Experimentation
Jim Cummings on Mar 12, 2012How do we know if a game design is any good? How do we know if a particular feature makes a game better, worse, or has no effect? Until fairly recently A/B testing was a practice most of us associated with market research teams as they adjusted...
GDC: Winning the behavior change game – suggestion...
Jim Cummings on Mar 8, 2012The role of games for promoting, facilitating, an supporting behavior change has been a hot topic at this year’s conference. Below are summaries from two presentations from two separate sessions, both of which stress how games – through their...
GDC: Time to get SuperBetter
Jim Cummings on Mar 8, 2012As part of the Game IT summit of this year’s conference, there was a special Health IT session Monday afternoon, featuring presentations for integrating games with health-focused IT. Headlining this session was the unveiling of SuperBetter, Jane...