Category Resources

Game creation resources

I found this useful page of links to game creation resources. I’ve not really had time to look at any of these tools in detail but thought I would post the link before I forget it.

Interesting reading

I’ve recently discovered three interesting blogs that, while not all being directly associated with game-based learning, are definitely worthy of a mention from the technology-enhanced learning perspective. My colleague, Jonathan Savage, writes about teaching, learning and research in the arts,…

Alternate realities

I’ve been recently getting more and more interested with the potential of alternate reality games (ARGs) as a lo-fi solution to the problem of the expense of educational game development. Basically an ARG combines a story with a series of…

A couple of papers on MMORGS

An area I’m particularly interested in is the potential of multi-player games as collaborative learning environments. Here are a couple of papers I’ve been looking at recently that explore some of the issues. Constance Steinkuehler, a resercher at the University…

Top 100 tools for learning

I meant to post this link a while back. It’s not really games-related except in that it’s perhaps interesting that there’s nothing even remotely game-related in the top 100 (well, Flash, possibly, at a push). Aside from that, there’s still…

Digiplay initiative

The digiplay initiative site is one of those web sites that I keep returning to but never get the time to really explore in as much depth as I’d like. Among other things, it contains a really excellent research bibliography.…