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Game Design for Learning

Resources on Game Design — only some of these are learning-specific or related to the development of serious games, but all are (in my opinion) useful to people creating learning.

Game Design Articles (we will update these links, but archived articles may be available at https://www.gamedeveloper.com/):

Books

An excellent place to start with books is Raph Koster’s Theory of Fun

Also, Jesse Schell’s Art of Game Design

And Karl Kapp’s The Gamification of Learning and Instruction

Presentations and Videos:

One of the best game design resources is this series called Extra Credits, available on youtube.

Here’s their full game design playlist:

Here’s their playlist on games in education:

Gamification

If you are interested in Gamification, the best resource (hands down) is Sebastian Deterding.  He’s really smart:

There is a lot more from Sebastian here:

Another fascinating resource is this presentation about the making of Plants vs Zombies

 

 

Game posts from the Usable Learning Blog

Here’s a link to all my other Game-related blog posts, which includes my presentations on the topic: https://usablelearning.com/category/game