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Three Perspectives on Serious Games

By Kars | Published: April 29, 2015

At the end of last year I was invited to give a talk at Creative Mornings Utrecht on the theme “education”. I figured it would be a nice opportunity to share the things I’ve learned over the past 5+ years of practicing applied game design. I tried to connect a wide range of sources with […]

Posted in Articles, Featured, Talks, Thoughts | Also tagged adaptive reuse, critical play, cultural practices, decision-making, education, ethical play, flux dogma, game-based learning, games for change, generative games, improvisation, issue games, iterative design, learning, performative play, play community, playful design, playgrounds, serious games, simulations, spontaneity, systems, systems thinking, toys, underspecification | Comments closed

Five Behaviour Design Principles You Never Suspected Would Work

By Kars | Published: July 9, 2014

A while ago, I was invited by friend-of-the-studio Iskander Smit to speak at a Behavior Design Amsterdam meetup. Much of our work is related to behaviour change, but we try to steer clear of the reductionist thinking that is quite prevalent in the field. So I decided to use the opportunity of presenting to a […]

Posted in Featured, Talks | Also tagged aerobie, Alan Adler, Animal Upon Animal, Apple, bdams, Beestenbende, behavior design amsterdam, behaviour design, Bernie De Koven, CHUTORO, COM-B system, communtity, Dave Eggers, David Kanaga, Douglas Wilson, ethics, Fiasco, flux dogma, Frank Lantz, gamification, Heather Kelley, Ian Bogost, Infinite Sketchpad, Johann Sebastian Joust, Krokobil, Miguel Sicart, Paolo Pedercini, Pig Chase, play, procedural rhetoric, procedurality, shifting possibility spaces, Skinner box, soft gamification, The Well-Played Game, Victory Boogie Woogie, Yellow Claw, Your Verse | Comments closed

“The opposite of play isn’t work…”

By Kars | Published: April 28, 2011

RANJ created a game that makes work in flower farming greenhouses more fun. The game plugs into the data being gathered there already, allowing workers to train their skills at spotting sick plants. In addition, they attempted to increase social interaction between Dutch and Polish workers by asking them to collectively answer a quiz or […]

Posted in Articles | Also tagged boredom, Code 4, gamification, motivation, play, work | Comments closed

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