In my article on the Magic Game Circle as a model, I mentioned cheating to illustrate the magic circle and it’s strong or weak appearance and it’s vulnerable appearance. Realizing the importance…
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I was invited to present the Magic Game Circle at the 44th Isaga (International Simulation and Gaming Association) Conference 2013 in Stockholm. The article on the Magic Circle as reference for this presentation…
Several methods are available for different contexts to design a game or play, what other method better then playful with cards? Gamified game design:
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When I celebrated my 40st birthday (in 2011), I decided to expose my 40 years of trash and treasures, and invited the guest to bring their trash and treasures. It was a great…
Tip: Read this interesting blog post by Noah Falstein: They Blinded Me with Neuroscience! He provides us with an overview of many neuroscientist and research done on the combination of the two topics.…
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As a volunteer at Nairobits I co-developed educational courses for the youth from Nairobi to become Web designers. In 2002 I went to Nairobi several weeks and learned amazingly much about different ways…
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With Laika.nl I worked from 2005 till 2010 on Vitamine P, a concept for a social communitysite for elderly to play daily puzzles together.
Wittgenstein (1953, 1958); “admitted failure in defining the essential characteristics of games, noting that there are no properties that are common to all games and that games belong in the same semantic…
While trying to figure out what is said by experts (check this post) to be the ultimate collection of game-elements I decided to visualize my findings via the so often used game…