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The Importance of Aesthetics in Serious Games

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If you have no budget for a graphic designer, here are a couple of other options to check out for digital art assets: [link] — has some nice graphics bundles you can download and use in your digital games. The hourly rate for a solo freelancer is typically around $75/hour.

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Learning Game Design Series, Part 4: Game Elements

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Example: conflict between quality and time constraints or quality and budget. These cards simulated things such as an economic downturn, a hiring freeze within the company, a loss of budget dollars, etc. Example: puzzle-style games are really a challenge that pits you against the puzzle. Cooperation and/or competition.

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How to Increase Learner Retention from Compliance Training… and Reduce Boredom

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Make compliance training as engaging and effective as possible within a limited budget. Help learners acquire compliance-related information they must know “cold.” ” Help learners find and locate relevant compliance information as needed. To accomplish these goals, we must think both about retention and engagement.

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Games Templates vs Custom Serious Games: How to Decide What Your Employees need

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How much budget do you have? How much budget/skill/time do you have? You want to include a serious game in your training… but can you use an inexpensive game template or do you need a more expensive custom game? Here are questions you need to consider as you decide: What are you trying to achieve?

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Why Sales Managers Struggle with Coaching

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Sales training is a big budget, high visibility endeavor in many organizations. It takes time to replace that competitive selling mentality with a more constructive coaching mentality. Aren’t being adequately supported by their organizations.

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6 Top-Notch Sessions at ATD TechKnowledge 2017

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By learning more about apps and tools you can use to create some of the media you need, and using a device you already own, you can become more efficient and keep project budgets down. You’ll also learn about physical tools that can push your mobile devices even further. Learn more. Presented by: Karl Kapp.

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Learning Game Design Series, Part 5: More Game Elements to Consider

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If you have no budget for a graphic designer, there are online resources for helping with aesthetics. If you are a one-person band, you may simply say, “Well, I don’t have a graphic designer to help me.”. Compare these two game boards, for example. Which one would you rather play?

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