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What a shooter taught me about player connections

You think you know shooters? Spec Ops: The Line is no ordinary shooter or game, it will make you rethink the genre and yourself.

Not all shooters are created equally, find out why Spec Ops: The Line is so much different to others.

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Games are complex creatures, they involve many disciplines, long hours, and lots of work, it's not just about making life fun.

We love games as much as you and at the end of the day we want to work WITH you so please try to listen what we have to say.

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The GEM framework is a new game design framework that anyone can use during any stage of the game design process to create player preferred experiences!

Almost four years of hard work has gone into the creation of the Game Elements and Mechanic (GEM) Framework. An emperically validated frameowrk that suggests what game elements and mechanics player’s’ prefer together.

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This week's post explores and discusses how Portal 2 teaches you the basic gameplay mechanics in an intuitive and clear way.

Games have the potential to teach us so much about so many things. In this post, I discuss the educational benefits of Portal 2 via their tutorial system.

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Gamification is more than Badges, Points, and Leaderboards, and bad game design should not be confused using player types during the game design process.

While this is not always this case, it is a persistent issue for newcomers who enter the world of game design within the context f gamification, serious games, and educational game design to get caught up in the hot and popular game elements - points, badges, and leaderboards. Of course, these provide great incentives to keep players engaged, but there is more to game design than the these three.

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Take the official GEM survey to be a part of an ongoing game design tool

The GEM framework survey is aimed to improve the GEM framework for game designers to add player preferred game elements and mechanics to their games design.

We are looking for survey participants to improve the GEM Framework. As technology changes, so do players’ preferences for GEMs as the ways in which they are designed into a gaming experiences can change.

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This week's post looks at the game Sid Meier's Civilization V through the lens of education and how it teaches players the basics.

Ever wondered what it takes to be a leader? Civilization provides the opportunity to do just that. To conquer land, establish allies, allegiances, even enemies with neighbouring countries. All with the aim of developing your own country to the various periods of time such as the bronze and gold ages all the way into the future.

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Any gamer with Steam is likely to have an ever growing list of games because willpower goes out the windows with Steam sales. It's time to get gaming.

With Easter sales here, now is the time to get on top of that ever growing list!!

Find out how by clicking the link.

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The Lemon Meringue Pie Technique is a way to "deconstruct" games to by adapting core game components in new and innovative ways during game development

If you like pie, then you should give this a try! Another way to thinking about game design, or any type of design for that matter!

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While life continues at an ordinary pace, the time within the virtual world seems to have its own rules.This post explores this and how it affects gameplay.

One of time's most puzzling aspects concerns its ontological status: on the one hand, it is a subjective and relative notion, based on our conscious experience of successive events; yet, on the other hand, our civilization and technology are based on the understanding that something like objective, absolute Time exists. Some philosophers have taken this paradox so far as to conclude that time is unreal; others, accepting the existence of absolute time, have engaged in heated debates regarding its structure, be it linear or circular, bounded or unbounded, dense or discrete. -  The Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic

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