GuidiGO – a platform for museums and storytellers I work at GuidiGO, a Franco-American company whose focus is to bring culture and heritage to everyone by reinventing the traditional guided tour on mobile devices. GuidiGO is a platform that allows every museum or storyteller to create guided tours with both rich content and geolocalized games using […]
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 […]
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 […]
How a Swedish interaction designer is bringing children and grandparents together with her latest app. From Finance to Interaction Design My name is Rozina Sidhu Koskela. I currently live in the south of Sweden in a town called Malmö, where I am studying my Interaction Design masters. My interest is in researching for design, and […]
The basics Name: Atiti Sosimi Product: Shhh or Tell it – Family Fun Learning Board Game which encourages kids to consider the consequences of their decisions. Each card represents a tricky scenario and players have 15 seconds to decide to ‘Shhh’ or ‘Tell it!’ then reflect on whether they made the right move. Home: London […]
I’ve been designing, building, playing and promoting educational games (both digital and non-digital) all my working life. Starting out as a TEFL teacher, games were a huge component of my classes: from number games with little kids to complex role plays with adults. As I began to work more with digital media I started to […]
Look back to your school sex education with adult eyes, and you probably remember some poor teacher standing up in front of a class of giggling, scandalised or bored teenagers, teaching them how to put a condom on. Maybe a diagram of the uterus. These days PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economics education), as it’s […]
What are the advantages and challenges inherent in working with children in the design process for creating games or apps? How do you stop them getting bored, and get useful information? This case study looks in detail at a project that tried to do just that, and provides some handy tips at the end. (Images […]
It is my firm belief that games designers are currently missing out on a huge and largely untapped source of potential ideas: science. And, conversely, those working in public engagement with science are also failing to make the most of the many advantages of using games for this purpose. Why do I think games and […]
