School imposes compulsory Minecraft lessons. Resources: Games and Gaming in Education. GAMES. Epistemic Games - building the future of education. Using games to educate and solve problems: Playing with conflict and brains. Over the years, the decades, I have been time after time convinced of the value of games to teach, and so recently have been researching game design. I want to create my own educational games. The topic is wide-ranging and opinions on every aspect, even the definition of game, are many.
Unfortunately the number of books and articles on the actual how-to of designing is sparse. At this blog post, I will post what I find in my search. Do you recommend any resources I can add below? The book I have found most interesting because it is almost a philosophical take on games is The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses; unfortunately reading it will not equip you to create your own game but will allow you to thoroughly evaluate one you've already designed. Games focus on health, wealth, contentment, fun, war, much more—and the list grows daily. Let's look at an example of a teaching game. Click to play the game.
More soon.