Last June 30th and July 1st RAGE team members presented the project and Ecosystem at GSGS 2017 celebrated at the Neuchatel lake in Switzerland.
This second edition of GSGS (Gamification and Serious Games Symposium) gathered some 50 representatives from all Swiss Universities offering Serious Games related courses and representatives from games related industries to discuss possible […]
Manuel Guimarães e Pedro Santos @ INESC-ID
In recent years, with companies such as Sony, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple investing in both Augmented and Virtual Reality, these technologies have moved from industrial niches to mass markets at an impressive rate. The chance for VR to enable the “presence” of a user, in other words, to make […]
Dr Kam Star (PlayGen)
Sport Team Manager is a RAGE game developed by PlayGen for the OKKAM use case, where players take on the role of a sailing team manager, deciding on who to hire, who to fire and where to place members of the sailing team to maximise their chances of winning. The game provides […]
by Nurogames GmbH
While the development of the Water-Cooler game is coming along quite nicely preparing for the first pilots at Hull College an amazing design work has been done to give an appealing look and feel to a serious game. More and more components from the RAGE “assets’ portfolio” are being integrated into the game […]
“Zerrin Yumak is assistant professor at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences. She does research in the “Motion Capture laboratory. Here she analyzes social and emotional behaviors and turns them into computational models”.
Don’t miss this interview by DUB.
The Applied Games and Gamificaion Group has now more than 5,000 members.
This group is one of the largest collective of creators, developers, researchers, users, thinkers, makers and doers wielding the medium, techniques, tools and methods in games and gamification.
We invite you to join the group to discuss or announce any relevant questions or […]
Post by Pedro Fialho, INESC-ID
Natural language is inherent to many games, for example in story guided games where players are provided with sets of spoken and/or written sentences denoting ways of continuing (and conducting) the game. However, the user experience of such games would be improved if natural language processing (NLP) is involved, for instance […]
By: TUGRAZ
Over the last decade, serious games have become accepted educational tools and the idea of using the great strength of modern computer games for educational purposes experienced a significant boost. From an educational perspective, computer games offer a promising approach to make learning more engaging, satisfying, and probably more effective.
However, playing experience and learning […]
Dr. Kam Star (PLAYGEN)
To gamify or not to gamify, that is sometimes the question.
So – whilst proponents of hard-gamification claim universal appeal of competitive zero-sum game mechanics, waxing lyrical about the propensity for human beings to engage in hypercompetitive activity to prove their worth by accumulating digital badges and virtual points to beat everyone else […]
Would you change your job as a New Year’s Resolution?
Whether the Universe brought you the opportunity of a new job or you feel like you should make a change in 2017, your résumé represents an “identity card”, a portrait of yourself. It should be clean, straightforward, catchy, therefore creating the right first impression.
The odds are […]
