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What’s the Benefit of “Fun” in Games?

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Challenges abound in the workplace: time, money, and resource management; economic challenges; adverse event challenges; innovation challenges. Goals are everywhere in the work world: sales goals, productivity goals, safety goals, retention goals. Games become a useful way of encouraging this type of thinking, if it’s required for the job.

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Learning Game Design Series, Part 4: Game Elements

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These cards simulated things such as an economic downturn, a hiring freeze within the company, a loss of budget dollars, etc. When players landed on specific spaces on the board, they drew a “Life Happens” type of card that either positively or negatively influenced their timeline. Strategy played no part in the effect.

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