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How to Promote a Serious Game to Learners

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ExactTarget has its very own internal social network called 3sixty that’s used for training and communications. They also furnished prizes to the top scores, investing a few hundred dollars in providing incentives people would actually want. Use whatever resources you have available to make your serious game a big deal.

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Learning Game Design Series, Part 1: Play and Evaluate Games

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Rise of the Blob (Facebook, Android, iPad). The reward is the satisfaction from solving the challenges.) Other things to evaluate: The aesthetics. The contrast between game play on the desktop and the iPad. This is a horrible game that is the complete opposite of Machinarium.

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ASTD ICE learning game design workshop resources

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The use of Facebook posts to offer scathing commentary from Professor Snerpus’s students is humorous. There is a nice backstory to this game revolving around your voluminous student loan debt and your need for indentured servitude to Professor Snerpus to help pay down the loan. The aesthetic s. They are super-simple but captivating.

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