serious game design

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AI in Serious Game Design: How AI Tools Are Transforming Game Development

AI in Serious Game Design: How AI Tools Are Transforming Game Development

Welcome to our latest video on the topic of AI in Serious Game Design. In this video, we explore the latest tools and techniques that are being used to create some of the most impressive and engaging games using AI.

What is Skinning? Game Design Techniques

What is Skinning? Game Design Techniques

When we look at the Concentric Game Design Method taught in the Basic Game Design Course, we see clear divisions of the layers, making them interchangeable. The core elements of the concentric model are Goals, Rules (Mechanics), Declarative Layer (Narrative), and Social Layer. Many of these layers can be changed around, like a new wrapping of an onion.

Can games help prevent suicide?

Can games help prevent suicide?

The 2020s have not been kind for mental health. Suicides are on the rise around the world as we begin to find ourselves in a Mental Health Crisis. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and boy do we need it. As I've told my students over the past 2 years, "So many people are walking around with PTSD, and they don't even know it." But how can Games help? …

Do Your New Year Resolutions Keep Failing?

Do Your New Year Resolutions Keep Failing?

How to use Game Design to Solve your Failed New Year Resolution

Every year on New Year's Eve, millions of people make a promise to themselves they will not keep. It's not because they are bad people, or cheaters, or have some other deep psychological traumas from childhood that keep them from achieving their New Year's Goals. You may be reading this and thinking to yourself, yeah, I've been there. Well let's use Game Design to solve your problem!

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