After our #LEGup event on failure in games, and our follow-up article, here is a response from Darren Garrett, founder and Creative Director of Littleloud. Littleloud made several great educational games, including Sweatshop for Channel 4, but sadly closed last year. Does Darren see this as a failure? He shares his thoughts, as well as some excellent advice about the […]
For our first African Edugames Q&A, we visited HeHe Mobile, based in The Office co-working space in Kigali, Rwanda. As well as creating apps of their own and for clients, the team at HeHe runs a 6-month-long code club program for secondary school students, at the end of which the students have fully-functional apps of […]
Guest post from Tom Matcham, mathematician and founder of coAdjoint, who shares his recipe for using personalisation to make better educational games. The elephant in the Games Industry room For many years now, there has been an elephant in the Games Industry room, and he’s sat right in the middle of Educational Games Corner. The […]
Teach Your Monster to Read is a free award-winning game from The Usborne Foundation designed to help children to practise the key first stages of reading. We caught up with the team who built the game to find out about their process and what they’ve learned along the way about game design, marketing and testing with […]
As someone who works mostly in the cultural sector, for museums and the like, I’ve gotten used to talking about failing over the last few years. At various museum conferences and events there have been Epic Fail sessions filled with horror stories of million pound plus projects getting dumped after breaking so badly they only […]
For our first country Q&A from Asia, we talked to Jeremy Mum, from Phnom Penh-based studio SomPom. We asked Jeremy about some of SomPom’s recent titles, and found out why it’s tough for a small Cambodian games studio to get noticed. Hello SomPom! Can you introduce your company and let us know how you got together […]
We’ve been keen to speak to someone at Amplify for a while, as we’ve heard some interesting rumours about them commissioning a huge number of new educational games, and wanted to find out more about their plans. We spoke to Justin Leites, Vice President of Games at Amplify Learning, and asked him some questions about […]
Edugameshub interviewed Ian Steiner, and his dad, Tom, about Ian’s game Meteor Kids, and asked why and how a nine-year-old schoolboy decided to build his own app. You can also see Ian introduce his app here. Hello Ian. I enjoyed playing Meteor Kids. Why did you decide to make a game, and why did you […]
This is a guest post by Amber Stevens of d2 Digital, a Manchester-based digital agency set up by two former teachers, which specialises in educational games. Founded by former teachers; d2 has over the last 19 years worked extensively on developing online educational resources. Driven by the impact digital technology can have on the learning […]
News and activity around educational technology and gaming tends overwhelmingly to focus on the USA. But there is another edtech hub which is quietly booming; Israel is the latest edtech success story you haven’t heard of. Edugameshub put on our investigative hats, fired up Skype and began asking questions. A long history My first contact […]
