Crash Course
Game Design: Crash Course Games
Good game design is essential for a positive player experience whether it's a board games, video game, or even dice game. So today, we're going to take some time to give you an introductory overview of the process of creating a game, and...
Bozeman Science
Using Game Design to Improve My Classroom
Paul Andersen explains how he is using elements of game design to improve his AP Biology class. The entire class revolves around Moodle. Students complete levels to acquire experience points and move up the leader board
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Steven Isaacs - Game Design and Development
Steve Isaacs teaches Video Game Design and Development at William Annin Middle School in Basking Ridge, NJ. In addition, he developed and teaches an online version of the Video Game Design and Development course for the VHS...
TED Talks
Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life
When game designer Jane McGonigal found herself bedridden and suicidal following a severe concussion, she had a fascinating idea for how to get better. She dove into the scientific research and created the healing game, SuperBetter. In...
Curated Video
Educational Games: Crash Course Games
Chess, Number Munchers, The Oregon Trail! Today, we're going to talk about gaming's role in education. Now technically all games have an educational component, because games are defined by their rules and players have to learn those...
TED Talks
David Perry: Are games better than life?
Game designer David Perry says tomorrow's videogames will be more than mere fun to the next generation of gamers. They'll be lush, complex, emotional experiences -- more involving and meaningful to some than real life. With an excerpt...
TED Talks
TED: How video games turn players into storytellers | David Cage
Have you ever watched a film or read a novel, wishing that you could change the narrative to save your favorite character? Game designer David Cage allows you do just that in his video games, where players make decisions that shape an...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Increasing Creativity through Mobile Game Design
In this video, Michael Leap, a game designer and founder of Maker Monsters, talks about the benefits of creativity and the decline in creativity levels in the United States and Canada, especially in children. Leap stresses the importance...
Curated Video
The Video Game Crash of 1983: Crash Course Games
So the 1980s was the golden age of arcade games. Games like Donkey Kong, Pac- Man, Space Invaders, and Centipede had become a cultural phenomenon. These games had expanded the gamer demographic and even encouraged the rise of competitive...
Curated Video
The Future of Gaming: Crash Course Games
Welcome to the FINAL LEVEL of Crash Course Games! We thought it made the most sense to sign off this series by taking a look towards the future because you know... boss battles are supposed to be tough. Now we don't know the future...
TED Talks
Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.
Curated Video
Will Video Games Eventually Replace Your Therapist?
You might have heard that video games are bad for you, but psychologists think they might be a useful therapeutic tool for improving some people’s mental health.
Curated Video
Board Games: Crash Course Games
Today, we're going to talk about board games, but instead of trying to trace their histories, which we've already covered a bit of in ep2 on ancient games, we're going to look really closely at just two board games - Monopoly and The...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Scott Nicholson - Creating Board Games
Scott Nicholson is an Associate Professor at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and the director of the Because Play Matters game lab. He has written research papers on meaningful gamification, games in libraries,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jesse Schell - Schell Games
Jesse Schell has taught Game Design and led research projects at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center since 2002. Jesse is also the CEO of Pennsylvania's largest video-game studio, Schell Games, and the former chairman of...
Curated Video
Game Design Principles for Teaching Ethics: Insights from Designer Board Games
From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Tomer Perry, a postdoctoral fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University examines using game design principles to enhance teaching by making engaging and...
Extra Credits
Understanding the Fantasy - How to Shape a Game's Design - Extra Credits
The most important skill for a game designer is understanding the fantasy or player experience their game wants to deliver. Dig deep into the genre of the game, study both the best and worst examples from all media to understand why...
Biography
Tim Schafer: Legendary Video Game Designer | Biography
Legendary video game designer Tim Schafer reveals the secret behind his continual ability to design popular games that are both challenging and works of art, on the latest Biography and @Reddit AMA Video. #Biography Subscribe for more...
Get Me Coding
5 Elements of Great Game Design
Please subscribe to the GetMeCoding Channel!! These are the five elements you want to include when building your video game. History shows if you include these elements, you will find that you have the perfect mix for a winning game....
Extra Credits
Ma, The Space Between - Uncluttered Game Design - Extra Credits
Today we're talking about a Japanese word "ma" and how it applies to game design. Incorporating rest, space, and emptiness can make the rest of the gameplay, action, and narrative stand out. Subscribe to Extra Credits for more episodes...
Curated Video
Input Devices: Crash Course Games
Today we're going to talk about controllers. Controllers are incredibly important in the gaming experience because they are how we communicate actions within a game and often play a significant role in why we like or dislike certain...
TED Talks
Brenda Romero: Gaming for understanding
It's never easy to get across the magnitude of complex tragedies -- so when Brenda Romero's daughter came home from school asking about slavery, she did what she does for a living -- she designed a game. She describes the surprising...
Curated Video
The First Home Consoles: Crash Course Games
So last week Andre talked about Atari's role in the rise of the video game industry, but Atari wasn't the only major player in the 1970s. So we're going to step back a few years and first talk about Ralph Baer who designed the first...
Curated Video
Handhelds: Crash Course Games
Today, we're going to talk about the gaming devices that combine the screen, speakers, controls, and computer into one neat little package - that's right we're talking about handheld game consoles. Handhelds have actually been around...
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