Exploring the importance of lifelong play
Exploring the importance of lifelong play
I had a wonderful day out down in Birmingham on Saturday for the Grand Finale of Emergent Game, the brainchild of Nikki Pugh. The emergent game is kind of hard to explain… part online, part real-world, it involves selecting a…
There’s a really interesting article on Gamasurta on the use of obstacles and barriers in games and the usability issues associated with them. I thought this was a clear analysis of some of the common usability problems in terms of…
There’s some really interesting things happening at the moment with games and their potential to make us more active. I said a long while ago that the only way a running machine could be made even slightly palatable for me…
I was down in London yesterday for the final meeting of the Pathfinder projects. After two hours of being talked at in the morning I was beginning to think it was all a bit of a waste of time, but…
Read a really interesting post on formal and informal learning and the impact of social networks on Sarah Robbins‘ blog. The slideshow is well worth a view, particularly the exploration of the differences between what university education and social networks…
With an urgent and barely-started article due by the end of the day, it was never going to be an easy afternoon. Time to catch up on my blog reader then. Twenty minutes were already happily displaced when I came…