Note: Sophia – Emotion in Educational Games October 5, 2025 This mind map is my note of the talk: Precision of Emotion: A New Kind of “Fun” Approach in Educational Games. Reflection: Analyzing the…
P1: Introducing Serious Games Spent- Tianze Shao September 29, 2025 Recently, I played a game called Spent, developed by the advertising agency McKinney for Urban Ministries of Durham (UMD). It is a poverty simulator…
Sketchnote: From MDA to MDAO September 28, 2025 Reference Browning, H. (2016). Guidelines for designing effective games as clinical interventions: Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics, and Outcomes (MDAO) Framework. In Handbook of research on holistic…
Games, Design and Play: Elements (Tianze Shao) September 24, 2025 Q1. Identify the basic elements in a game of your choice (actions, goals, rules, objects, playspace, players) Example: Chess Actions: moving your own pieces…