A few days ago I jotted down some notes describing a view on the motivations of some games, that there were games pretending to entertain but instead they were in the business of raising ‘engagement rates’ getting you to do something in the interest of the developer rather than to Read more…
I’ve had a few attempts attrying to describe a view on gamification in my blog, but never really felt like I’ve got it across very well. Many academics talk of persuasive games and draw on the themes of rhetoric, but I’m not sure that is the same thing. Plus I’m Read more…
If you ever procrastinate on Youtube you may have come across ‘reaction’ videos, these videos rang from setting somebody up to do something and recording their reactions, such as making them play a scary game , recording reactions of audiences at events or simply recording yourself playing a game/watching a Read more…
While in theory it is quite easy to start firing xAPI to a Learning Record Store there are quite a few things you need and it can get confusing wondering where to start. I’ve played in this space before but found there are so many things to get my head Read more…
I have a very old mediawiki instance on a backup drive that I need to get the content off somehow, even though the content is old it is still relevant and I would still like people to be able to view it. It is slightly out of date so it Read more…
A couple of years ago I wanted to install Learning Locker on OSX, I blogged about it to help me remember what to it and I found it pretty useful to return to when I got stuck. I need to install Learning Locker again, but looking through my old post Read more…
Blockchain is one of those things that more and more people I trust have started saying ‘have you seen this thing? I think it’s important!’. These are my first thoughts after a quick look. While I kind of knew blockchain was some kind of database thing that bitcoin used it Read more…
I’ve been playing with submitting games to the main phone market places for about a year now and I have had a really different experience with all of them. I’m very much developing gamesfor a hobby, and I expect that due to technologies like Unity there are many other people Read more…
My favorite type of video games are online cooperative ones, I think I’ve always preferred them to competitive counterparts because while they are social and let you play with other people, they do not featuring an 11 year old who has clocked up 500 hours laughing at you because your Read more…
Update: I’ve created a quick video to help people who get stuck with the tutorial: Hidden object games are hugely popular at the moment, if you haven’t played them the idea is simple, you get a series of pictures and you have clues to what objects you need to find, Read more…
