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Professor Game Podcast

350 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 21 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 91 ratings

Professor Game is a weekly podcast where we interview gurus, experts and successful practitioners of games, gamification and game thinking that bring us the best of their experiences to get ideas, insights and will inspire us in the process of getting students to learn what we teach.

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Matthew Farber and Social Emotional Learning with Gaming | Episode 199

August 16, 2021 04:30 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MB

Matthew Farber, Ed.D. is an assistant professor of technology, innovation, and pedagogy at the University of Northern Colorado, where he founded the Gaming SEL Lab. He has been invited to the White House, authored several books and papers, and frequently collaborates with UNESCO MGIEP and Games for Change. His latest book is Gaming SEL: Games as Transformational to Social and Emotional Learning.

Tracy Johnson Feeds her Inmune Ninjas | Episode 198

August 09, 2021 04:30 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MB

Tracy J is the creator of the Feed Your Ninjas movement, the author of How to Feed Your Ninjas children's book and she’s currently working on an idea for a video game app that helps you, well... Feed Your Ninjas. Having overcome an autoimmune disease, she is an advocate for being in control of your own personal health. She hopes to inspire others to take charge of their health but realized it would be easier to start at the foundation... children.

Matt Leacock with the Fastest Prototypes of the West | Episode 197

August 02, 2021 04:30 - 35 minutes - 36.8 MB

Matt Leacock is a board game designer living in Sunnyvale, California. In 2014, he quit his day job to work on board games full time. Before that, he designed games on nights and weekends while working as a user experience designer for a number of Silicon Valley companies. He's best known for his cooperative games, Pandemic and Forbidden Island, although he enjoys designing all sorts of games.

Lee Sheldon Updating Books with So Many Changes in the Game World | Episode 196

July 26, 2021 04:30 - 40 minutes - 35.7 MB

Lee Sheldon is a game writer/designer, and educator. Until recently he was a professor of practice at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is author of The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game. It’s second edition was published in the spring of 2020; The Multiplayer Classroom: Game Plans, published in June 2021; and Character Development and Storytelling for Games, 3rd edition coming in 2022. Lee spearheaded the development of the first writing for games full concentration in...

New professional season! | Episode 195

July 19, 2021 04:30 - 12 minutes - 14.1 MB

This is an entirely different episode, I'm sharing a personal/professional update in my life! Listen up if you want to find out!

Showcode and the Gamification Hackathon | Episode 194

July 12, 2021 04:30 - 29 minutes - 27 MB

Having recently joined ShowCode, Sheran is a key figure in organising and delivering their hackathons and coding competitions. He’s taking the lead in their upcoming hack ‘Level-Up Society’ which will give participants 48-hours to come up with something to help improve a pillar of society, using gamification.

Dave Beck from Video Games to Board Games like Distilled | Episode 193

July 05, 2021 04:30 - 38 minutes - 36.5 MB

Dave Beck is a practicing 3D digital and new media artist and designer, living in Wisconsin.  He is the creator of the award-winning video game, Tombeaux, and also recipient of the 2010 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge Award, given by the National Science Foundation.  Beck's artwork has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, National Geographic, the journal Science, and the book GameScenes: Art in the Age of Videogames. When D...

Dov Tsal Likes Games without a Game-Master | Episode 192

June 28, 2021 04:30 - 33 minutes - 31 MB

Dov is a Tao-inspired agile, systemic, and exec coach, living in the heart of Paris with a woman and a dog. He's an avid speaker and facilitator and has a love-hate relationship with serious games. He is the creator of the Meeting Spicer, a tool to hack meeting culture that he believes can change the world.

Bob DePasquale with Games and Cancer at 18 | Episode 191

June 21, 2021 04:30 - 33 minutes - 31.9 MB

Bob is an advocate of stewardship. He has always believed in taking care of the things that he has been blessed with. It is his mission to help others in doing the same. Bob’s perspective derives from a battle with cancer at age 18. After growing up an only child it wasn’t until he was legally an adult that he felt alone. Having his life threatened at such a young age lead to a unique view of the gift that is vitality.

Erik Agudelo Blending Physical and Digital Games for Learning | Episode 190

June 14, 2021 04:30 - 34 minutes - 30.6 MB

Erik is a researcher and developer of Learning Solutions. He's the founder of Play Learn Develop and also a vegetarian. His research and products combine the use of Human Behaviour, tabletop games and Artificial Intelligence/Data Science. Over the past two years, he has worked with the University of Economics Krakow, in Poland, and with Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in Ireland. Currently, he's working on a project to take ToolBox 4 Creativity (his latest L&D product) to Kickstarter. As well a...

Bernardo Letayf Explodes Learning with Gamification | Episode 189

June 07, 2021 04:00 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MB

Bernardo started as a web designer back in 1998. He worked in JWT (marketing agency) for a year and afterward started his journey in the training world working at EduMac as an Adobe Certified Instructor. In 2008 he started working at the American School Foundation. Bernardo has been working as a freelancer forever and founded his company in 2011. In 2011 he was introduced by a student to the concept of gamification. Since then all his classes were gamified. He developed BLUErabbit as a platf...

Engagers and Professor Game Powers, Engage! | Episode 188

May 31, 2021 04:30 - 8 minutes - 9.25 MB

Special episode alert! This week we are asking for your help Engagers!  We have a shorter episode explaining how you can engage with Professor Game to activate the special powers (yes, oldie but goodie Wonder Twin Powers-like). All you have to do is go to professorgame.com/survey21, invest less than 5 minutes answering some questions and that's it! You can invest a little more and give us some more details, and you can also go on a quest that shows up after you hit send on the survey! As alw...

Miguel Sicart Connects the Cables of Game Research and Design | Episode 187

May 24, 2021 04:30 - 37 minutes - 34 MB

Miguel Sicart is an Associate Professor at the IT University, where he teaches play design. He is the author of The Ethics of Computer Games (The MIT Press, 2009), Beyond Choices (The MIT Press, 2013), and Play Matters (The MIT Press, 2014). His work combines the philosophy of technology, game studies, and design theory to try to make sense of play. His most recent research focuses on the nature of play in the software society, and on the ridiculous nature of all software.

Adam Powley with XP Grading in the Classroom | Episode 186

May 17, 2021 04:30 - 35 minutes - 34.8 MB

Mr. Powley is the Dual Enrollment American History Teacher at HCS Early College High School in Coastal South Carolina where he lives with his wife Amanda and three young boys. In 2013, he began transforming his classroom with game-inspired design.  He has been a presenter at the Future of Ed Tech Conference as well as numerous state and local events. Mr. Powley is currently writing a blog at classroompowerups.com where he frequently writes about gamification and other game-inspired practices.

Frida Polli Finds the Fit with Games on Pymetrics | Episode 185

May 10, 2021 04:30 - 37 minutes - 35.5 MB

Dr. Frida Polli is an award-winning Harvard and MIT neuroscientist turned CEO. Named one of Inc.’s Top 100 Female Founders in 2018 and one of Entrepreneur’s Top 100 Powerful Women in 2020, Dr. Polli’s mission is to help everyone realize their true potential at work by removing bias from the talent matching process and improving job fit. She is the CEO and co-founder of pymetrics, a company leveraging behavioral science and AI to make workforce decisions more accurate, fair, and efficient. Wi...

Roman Rackwitz and the Growth Gamification Manifest | Episode 184

May 03, 2021 04:30 - 39 minutes - 37.2 MB

Roman Rackwitz is the founder of Engaginglab GmbH, Europe’s first Gamification Agency in 2009. Winner of the first international Gamification Challenge, done by Mashable and SETI in 2011. He teaches Gamification for HR and Marketing at Universities in Germany and Switzerland. With his channels like podcasts, Youtube he shares his experience and knowledge with those who want it. You can find him and his work on all the popular platforms like LinkedIn, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, iTun...

Kurt Nelson with Behavioral Science to Engage Your Teams | Episode 183

April 26, 2021 04:30 - 43 minutes - 44.2 MB

Kurt is a sought-after speaker and recognized leader in human motivation and behavior change. For over 20 years, Kurt has worked with global companies to apply behavioral science principles to drive change in their organizations. He is founder and president of The Lantern Group, a communication and behavioral design agency.  He also is the co-founder, with Tim Houlihan, of the Behavioral Grooves podcast, where they interview leading academic and business executives from around the world and ...

Jimmy Chebat with Gamification for the Workforce of the Future | Episode 182

April 19, 2021 04:30 - 35 minutes - 33.2 MB

Jimmy Chebat, an enterprising business pioneer, has developed a digital initiative anticipated to address the paradigm shifts currently plaguing the workforce due in part to the workplace culture identity crisis and the ever-increasing rate of remote workers. His portfolio of past business ventures emphasizes his ability to identify challenges facing personnel management, generating innovative solutions using his experience in data analytics, automated intelligence, and gamification. The fou...

Robert Belle on How To Find Your Gamification Career Path | Episode 181

April 12, 2021 04:30 - 32 minutes - 27.7 MB

Robert A. Belle is a transformational speaker, author and ACCA Qualified Accountant. He helps people who feel stuck in their career or life journey to break away from the “norm” and find new paths that reveal their true value. With his new book Blow The lid Off! He is on a global mission to help individuals who feel inferior and have given up on their dreams to think freely, create unapologetically and live abundantly.

Scott Kim with Puzzles and Game Thinking | Episode 180

April 05, 2021 04:30 - 45 minutes - 42.2 MB

Scott Kim is cofounder of the Game Thinking Academy and an educational game designer. Games he's worked on include Tetris, Bejeweled, Rush Hour, and monthly puzzles for Discover magazine. He has degrees in music, computer science and graphic design from Stanford University, and has a deep background in recreational mathematics.

David and Alyea Invite Us to The Playful Creative Summit 2021 | Episode 179

March 29, 2021 04:30 - 33 minutes - 31.9 MB

This is a special episode! We will be discussing the Playful Creative Summit with Alyea Sandovar and David Chislett, find more information about them on their episodes (166 and 162).

Laura and Carmela with the Sustainability Games | Episode 178

March 22, 2021 05:30 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MB

Laura Marie Edinger-Schons is Professor of Sustainable Business at the University of Mannheim. In her research, she focuses on the question of how organizations (from for-profit to non-profit) can contribute to sustainable development as defined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Specific topics which she is interested in are Employee Engagement in Sustainability, Social Entre/Intrapreneurship, Digital Social Innovation, Corporate Democracy, and New Work. Her work has been ...

Eric Holden With Tabletop RPGS and Storytelling | Episode 177

March 15, 2021 05:30 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MB

Eric Holden is an Atlanta artist, comedian, and co-host of The Goblin's Corner, a tabletop and storytelling podcast on all your favorite podcasting platforms. Eric has been performing since he was old enough to speak and has carried this into every creative format, from various improv and live acts, to sketch comedy and gaming. With 30 plus years of running various table top games, he has extensive knowledge of both the industry and the performance art of storytelling overall. Eric can be se...

What Can We Learn From Fortnite for Gamification and Game-Based Solutions | Episode 176

March 08, 2021 05:30 - 34 minutes - 37.7 MB

This is a different episode! No guest this time, I do an analysis of the game Fortnite and some potential applications outside of the entertainment industry (i.e. gamification and game-based solutions). We go through some of the strategies used by this game and think of them divided within the RAMP framework that Andrzej Marczewski talks about. I pose a final challenge! Play one of the games you enjoy, and analyze it with this same vision, looking at the elements and mechanics and how they h...

Dave Eng shares the GBL Conference 2021 | Episode 175

March 01, 2021 05:30 - 25 minutes - 25.1 MB

Dave Eng is an intellectual and creative educator, designer, and researcher who combines games, theory, and technology. Dave has played games for most of his life. As a result, he studies game design and teaches others how to use games for education and learning. Dave hosts the podcast Experience Points and consults at University XP on games-based learning. He also leads the Games-Based Learning Alliance: a community of individuals who use games for teaching, training, learning, and developm...

Tiago Sizenando Brings the Best of Octalysis and Game Thinking | Episode 174

February 22, 2021 05:30 - 35 minutes - 33.6 MB

Tiago Sizenando is a senior gamification consultant with projects in the United States, Europe and Brazil, in companies like Arcelor Mittal, Banco do Brasil, Forus group, and many startups. An engineer by training, he worked with Siemens for 6 years, co-founded a health promotion startup, and currently is Gamification Specialist at Gamiphy and Product Manager at Octalysis Prime. Tiago is a certified Game Thinking coach, member of the Game Science Research Center from Lucca University and fre...

Jeremy Royster Opens Up to the Creative Minds of Students | Episode 173

February 15, 2021 05:30 - 36 minutes - 38.1 MB

Jeremy Royster is a transformative curriculum author with extensive experience intrinsically motivating students through personalized instruction.  He has proven expertise amplifying engagement as an instructional technology professor through F.A.I.L. University, his gamified platform to deliver “Fearless Adventures In Learning” to instructors.  Certified in Technology Education (PK-12) and Education Technology Leadership (CETL), Jeremy is currently building virtual reality EscapED-X rooms i...

Stephen Baer Uses Licensed Games for Learning | Episode 172

February 08, 2021 05:30 - 25 minutes - 24.5 MB

Founder of Inc Best Workplaces Company, monthly contributor to Forbes.com & regular speaker at EdTech conferences. Stephen creates games to educate and activate audiences. Since launching The Game Agency 13 years ago and The Training Arcade 4 years ago, Stephen has developed award-winning games for new-employee on-boarding, sales and product training, leadership development, safety, security, compliance, systems & processes, customer service, and many other training topics. Stephen has also ...

Arek Siechowicz and his Team Committed to Gamification | Episode 171

February 01, 2021 05:30 - 38 minutes - 31.8 MB

Arkadiusz Siechowicz is one the founders of Gamehill - Gamified Learning Platforms. With his team they are winners of Outstanding Gamification Award as well as Best international implementation of Gamified learning solution form London's LTA. For the last 7 years they have gathered vast experience in corporate and university learning.  Their most recent addition to the platform is an AI based Adaptive learning module! Aside from gamification, Arek is passionate about any near future trends, ...

Ambikesh Prasad with Superfans and Rapid Prototypes | Episode 170

January 25, 2021 05:30 - 34 minutes - 32.5 MB

Ambikesh is the Co-Founder of a consulting firm based out of India called M.A.D. Methods. He is a serial entrepreneur having founded organizations in services and product spaces. Having worked with companies in the US and in many APAC countries, Ambikesh has a treasure of experience in User Experience and Client Management. In recent years Ambikesh has been involved in the product and service design projects which lead him into the world of Gamification and subsequently Game Thinking. Ambike...

Shawn Livermore from Average Joe to Tech Myth | Episode 169

January 18, 2021 05:30 - 28 minutes - 26.6 MB

Shawn Livermore is the author of the Amazon best-selling business non-fiction book, Average Joe: Be the Silicon Valley Tech Genius. The book teaches anyone how to think, speak, and create like some of the brightest tech founders in the world. It dispels the myth of the tech genius, then, in an unexpected and very satisfying twist, it reveals how to become the myth yourself. Shawn runs Product Perfect, a software consultancy, in Southern California.

Nadia Benedetti Inspiring the Creative Playfulness | Episode 168

January 11, 2021 05:30 - 39 minutes - 37.6 MB

Nadia Benedetti is an Advanced Trainer in playful learning, LEGO® SERIOUSPLAY® Facilitator, and Game Thinking Coach, her expertise is helping teams to face complexity by innovating. For 18 years, she was International Manager at Hachette Publishing and LEGO Education, facing the challenges of smart working and multicultural environments. She had been practicing the importance of playful learning to improve creativity, raise engagement, and manage complexity through new ideas. In 2018 she dec...

Chris Caswell and Julian Kea with the Debriefing Cube | Episode 167

January 04, 2021 05:30 - 41 minutes - 45 MB

Julian Kea is a bilingual serious games facilitator and team coach based in Berlin. Though activating learning environments with minds-on workshop methods he enables teams to exchange ideas authentically, promote mutual understanding and strengthen their cooperation. These methods include Training from the BACK of the Room, Thiagi’s Interactive Training and Teaching Strategies, Agile Classrooms, Open Space Technology and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, just to name a few. Julian is a Kanban Management ...

Alyea Sandovar Brings Playfulness to Gamification | Episode 166

December 28, 2020 05:30 - 33 minutes - 31.2 MB

Alyea Sandovar, Ph.D. is a game and play consultant. She works with trainers, consultants and entrepreneurs to add more fun and deepen engagement through gamification. She has a whole slew of degrees: A Ph.D. in Game Production, a Masters degree in Psychology, a Masters degree in Human Organizational Systems, and a Bachelor’s is in Public Relations and Communication. She has worked with academic institutions, non-profits, game studios, corporations and start-ups. She passionate about creatin...

Geoff Engelstein of Ludology Making the Best of Experiences | Episode 165

December 21, 2020 05:30 - 35 minutes - 37.1 MB

Geoff Engelstein s an award-winning tabletop game designer whose titles include Space Cadets, The Fog of War, Pit Crew, The Expanse, and the recently-released Versailles: 1919 and Super Skill Pinball. He is an adjunct professor of game design at the NYU Game Center. Geoff has since 2007 contributed a Dice Tower podcast series on the math, science, and psychology of games and since 2011 hosted the Ludology podcast on game design. He has published the books on game design Building Blocks of Ta...

Jaxton Cheah with Game Thinking in Southeast Asia | Episode 164

December 14, 2020 05:30 - 36 minutes - 27.9 MB

Jaxton is a Gamification Advocate in Malaysia. He works with many reputable gamification experts in the United States and Europe such as Amy Jo Kim, Yu-Kai Chou, Pete Jenkins, and An Coppens to promote Game Thinking & Gamification in the South East Asia (SEA) region. He was recruited by Amy Jo Kim, the founder of Game Thinking Academy (GTA) to be the first Game Thinking coach in Asia. Jaxton specializes in early-stage product innovation that applies the Game Thinking framework that helps cli...

Joe Slack Creating Balanced Economies on Board Games | Episode 163

December 07, 2020 05:30 - 35 minutes - 30.1 MB

Joe Slack is a professional board game designer and author of the #1 international best-selling book, The Board Game Designer's Guide, along with 2 other books on game design. He has taught Game Design and Development at Wilfrid Laurier University and runs the Board Game Design Course, an online course for new game designers. Joe has many games at various stages, from development to publication, including his own successful Kickstarter campaign for his solo adventure game, Relics of Rajaviha...

David Chislett with the Creative and Playful Mind | Episode 162

November 30, 2020 05:30 - 32 minutes - 25.9 MB

Born in Britain, raised in South Africa, resident in The Netherlands. Nowhere and Everywhere are home I am a published author, poet, musician and artist. I have also been an entrepreneur for over 25 years. The link that joins everything in my life together is creativity. By sharing what I know about this human capacity I aim to improve the world, one presentation at a time. I have been on stage in one capacity or another since 1980. I bring experience, research, humour and passionate energy ...

Andrzej Marczewski Doing Ethics In Gamification | Episode 161

November 23, 2020 05:30 - 39 minutes - 31.1 MB

Andrzej Marczweski is a Gamification Solution Designer and Consultant at Motivait. He is a recognized expert in gamification, especially on the topic of gamification mechanics and user types. In 2015 he published Even Ninja Monkeys Like to Play. In his spare time, Andrzej enjoys spending time with his family, playing guitar and video games.

Pete Jenkins Disrupting Gamification Europe Online 2020 | Episode 160

November 16, 2020 05:30 - 38 minutes - 30.7 MB

Pete Jenkins is an international authority on gamification, a lifelong gamer, a successful entrepreneur and a lecturer. As CEO of Gamification+ Ltd he mentors and trains companies worldwide on the use of gamification to solve business challenges. Gamification+ won the Board of Trade Award from the UK's Department of International Trade in January 2019. Pete is Chair of Gamification Europe, the annual conference for Gamification practitioners. The next conference is in November 2020 and being...

Chris Stone with Virtual Learning Games for Agile | Episode 159

November 09, 2020 05:30 - 25 minutes - 18.9 MB

Chris is The Virtual Agile coach, a #PeopleFirst champion, and an Agile Evangelist / Agile Transformation Lead / Scrum Master possessing over 8 years of experience within the IT industry. Chris facilitates a Meet up titled the Agile Arcade, is a vlogger, speaker, coach and trainer who always seeks to gamify content to enable consumers to connect to the subject matter and have fun whilst doing so. He's currently writing a book titled 'The Virtual Agile playbook' that will be free.

Third Anniversary of Professor Game Podcast! | Episode 158

November 02, 2020 05:30 - 3 minutes - 2.61 MB

Special anniversary episode of Professor Game Podcast! You will find all the details, pictures, mini-videos and all of it on professorgame.com

Jessica Creane with an Expansive Mind in Gamification | Episode 157

October 26, 2020 05:30 - 31 minutes - 25.8 MB

Jessica is a multi-hyphenate creator of games and immersive experiences. Her company, IKantKoan, uses agency and storytelling to make sense of complex ideas playful and accessible. Jessica is an immersive experience designer dedicated to crafting playful, transformative experiences that bring people together. She is the founder of IKantKoan LLC, a production company focused on playfully exploring complex subject matter like climate change, ethics, chaos, and love. Jessica is a Professor of G...

Azhelle Wade Applying Toyetic Principles | Episode 156

October 19, 2020 04:30 - 36 minutes - 29.8 MB

Azhelle is a cancer survivor, 3x patented toy inventor, Women In Toys Wonder Woman finalist, and was named 1 of the 100 most influential people in toys and games in 2020. After 10 years in the industry, working for companies like Toys R Us, Party City, Horizon Group USA, and Creative Kids, this entrepreneurial spirit took control of her own destiny and became the Founder and President of The Toy CoachTM. Azhelle launched The Toy CoachTM to help inventors and entrepreneurs develop and pitch t...

Michael Matera Inspiring and Showing the Path to Action in Gamification | Episode 155

October 12, 2020 04:30 - 42 minutes - 35 MB

Michael Matera is an engaging, fun and inspiring nationwide speaker and author, delivering keynotes, workshops and small group professional development to teachers and administration. Additionally, he is a practicing teacher. He ignites both his classroom and professional development audiences with interactive play, passion and purpose-driven learning. He helps us all focus on finding the joy in the journey of life both professionally as well as personally. He is the host and creator of the ...

Sarah Le-Fevre Finding Balance in Ludogogy | Episode 154

October 05, 2020 04:30 - 41 minutes - 26.9 MB

Sarah Le-Fevre is a Learning design and delivery professional and certified Lego® Serious Play® Facilitator.  After tiring of creating programs for blue-chip clients that focused almost solely on growth and profit, Sarah made the decision to keep the same audience but shift the focus to learning around sustainability, human flourishing and tackling systemic wicked problems. With a focus on experiential learning, specifically games and learning in nature, Sarah specializes in creating program...

Ethics in Game-Based Solutions and Gamification | Episode 153

September 28, 2020 04:30 - 20 minutes - 17.2 MB

Special episode Engagers! This time we have no guest and I dive straight into the very important topic of ethics in our world of game-based solutions and gamification! I talk about some ideas of fellow creators and past guests Andrzej Marczewski -@daverage- of gamified.uk and Nir Eyal. I mention this in the episode but we'll highlight this here as well, we'd love to know what do you think about this! Drop a comment below, reply to an email if you are in the email list, find our social media ...

Alessandro Canossa Studying the Effect of Games | Episode 152

September 21, 2020 04:30 - 33 minutes - 25 MB

Alessandro Canossa is an Associate Professor at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation. He is the Czar of Player Experience at modl.ai and has been straddling between the game industry and academia for many years. He has been an Assistant Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, Associate Professor at Northeastern University in Boston and he's now at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In his research, he employs psychological theories...

Kathleen Mercury with Failing to Succeed in Game Design | Episode 151

September 14, 2020 04:30 - 39 minutes - 31.6 MB

Kathleen Mercury, M.A.T., M.E.T., has been teaching gifted middle school students for fifteen years using design thinking to create functional art from designing tabletop games and RPGs to filmmaking, cosplay, and more. She shares all of her game design teaching resources at www.kathleenmercury.com for free, and loves to collaborate with educators and industry leaders to promote game design curriculum at every level and format. She currently cohosts the podcasts, Games in Schools and Librari...

Nicole Lazzaro Applying Her 4 Keys 2 Fun | Episode 150

September 07, 2020 04:30 - 45 minutes - 32.8 MB

Nicole Lazzaro, immersive media trailblazer, entrepreneur and game industry veteran has run XEODesign for 27 years. She discovered how game mechanics create emotion, designed the 1st iPhone game, and the 4 Keys to Fun used by millions of leading developers worldwide. Her 4 Keys are baked into the AI for the Sims and inspired IBM Watson’s sentiment analysis. Her game Tilt World planted 16K trees in Madagascar. Recent XR accomplishments include Follow the White Rabbit as well as Unscramble the...