I survived my first game jam weekend!
Have you ever taken part in a game jam weekend? I have! This past weekend marked the inaugural Game Jam for Learning, organised by Game designer/ Learning designer Richard Durham and hosted at the University of Auckland. Read more
Build a Wall'o'Games!
The Wall O’ Games was created after Dan Milward ( Gamefroot CEO) and I were trying to find a quick and engaging way to generate ideas by any group. After some investigation, we found nothing that was both suitable and entertaining so we invented our… Read more
Learning how to use Matrix Games
"If we have to use force to crush the student protestors, we will!" I heard words like this coming out of my mouth (with disturbing conviction!) at our most recent Meetup. To explain, I was role-playing the actions of an ambitious and ruthless young police… Read more
Tabletop and card games in the classroom
The theme for our first meetup for 2018 was "tabletop and card games in the classroom". Our mission was to share (and play!) a whole range of different games, and talk about how we could play and hack these in the classroom. A few of… Read more
“What’s in a game?”: The first Gameful Praxis card deck
Almost a year ago the Gameful Praxis crew created our first prototype card deck called "What's in a game?". We've been using this deck in lots of our game design workshops, and we are happy to share it. Here's the link to the downloadable pdf… Read more
NZCER Games for Learning Conference Aug 31-1st Sept
Come hang with the Gameful Praxis OG's at the NZCER Games for Learning conference, at Te Papa, 31 August-1st September! There will be some fabulous featured talks and breakout sessions. We hope to see you there! Read more
Gameful Praxis crosses the ditch to Melbourne: Part 2
My previous post discussed some of my personal highlights from the gaming mega-event PAX Australia. In this post, I’ll segue from PAX to the one-day Education in Games Summit that rounded off Melbourne International Games Week. As it turned out, education was the bridge between… Read more
Gameful Praxis crosses the ditch to Melbourne: Part 1
Earlier this month a small handful of us crossed the ditch to Melbourne to check out PAX Australia and the Education in Games Summit . I learned about the Summit via a Facebook post by Bron Stuckey (our friend and recent Gameful Praxis guest speaker).… Read more
Meetup 1
Our first meetup! Hazel Bradshaw from the new Te Papa Learning Lab gave us an update and our guest speaker Bron Stuckey got us thinking about games and game design. Dan and Dave from Gamefroot took over in the afternoon to show the potential of… Read more
Podcast Review: Games are good for you!
Note to Self: The Secret to Making Video Games Good for you Produced by WYNC studios Quite often gaming is looked at in a negative way so it is refreshing to hear research that frames gaming in a more positive way. This particular episode is… Read more