Brandon K. Penticuff
70 Added | 2 Magazines | 1 Follower | @bpenticuff | I'm a proud father, programmer, gadget freak, and game player. Director of Technology for Bottom-Line Performance and lead developer of the Knowledge Guru. http://www.theknowledgeguru.com
Learning Game Design: Game Elements | Knowledge Guru
In my last post, I talked about game mechanics. These are the rules and procedures that guide the player and the game responds to the player’s moves …
Learning Game Design: Game Mechanics | Knowledge Guru
In my last post, I talked about getting familiar with game elements. Specifically, I focused on game goals and game dynamics. Now we’re going to …
GBL Picks, Part 3: Curated Game Based Learning Resources
The Knowledge Guru team is obviously very interested in the future of game based learning, and right now that future is bright. But not everyone is …
Learning Game Design: Game Goals and Dynamics
This post focuses on Step Two of the learning game design process<i>: Get Familiar with Game Terminology and Elements and How to Use Them</i>. Before you …
Learning Game Design: Play and Evaluate Games
This post focuses on the first step to design learning games: play and evaluate games. If you don’t like playing games, don’t try to design a game …
Writing Questions in Knowledge Guru: How to Write Iterative Questions
Let’s walk through the typical flow for creating a question set in Knowledge Guru®. The game is designed to help people memorize facts… but only if …
How to Get Started in Learning Game Design
If the sign-ups for our learning game design workshops and Primer on Play workshops are any indicator, learning and development professionals are …
GBL Picks: Curated Game Based Learning Resources
The Knowledge Guru team is obviously very interested in the future of game based learning, and right now that future is bright. But not everyone is …
ASTD ICE learning game design workshop resources
Karl Kapp and I had a fantastic workshop last week at ASTD ICE. We did a one-day pre-conference workshop on getting started with learning game design …
100 Great Game Based Learning and Gamification Resources | Knowledge Guru
Lots people want to get started with game based learning, gamification and serious games in their training. We’ve been curating game related content …
Mario KartGet the Facts on Game Based Learning (Infographic) | Knowledge Guru
We know how effective serious games and game-based learning are. That’s why we’ve developed an entire game-based learning platform focused on making …
Introducing the New Learning Game Design Blog
Ladies and gents, welcome. We’re happy you have found your way to TheKnowledgeGuru.com… home of our Knowledge Guru™ suite of products.<p><b>This is the</b> …
4 Ways Gamification Drives Business Results | Knowledge Guru
<i>This post originally appeared on the Bottom-Line Performance Lessons on Learning blog. Read the full post here.</i><p>What’s the value of a more informed …
Game Based Learning - Why Does it Work? (Free download) | Knowledge Guru
<i>Click the image below to read the “entire scroll of knowledge”, or click here.</i><p>Forty years of research[i] says yes, games are effective learning …
Meet the Editor: Manage Your Magazines on the Web
Inside Flipboard / May 9, 2013<p>The “Flip It†button gets a major new expansion today: the Flipboard Editor, which gives all Flipboard curators …
20 Best Websites with Parallax Scrolling of 2013
<b>Parallax scroll has become mainstream</b>, Ian Coyle created the very first parallax website for Nike "Nike Better World" on 2011, nowadays it is …
Social & Workplace Learning through the 70:20:10 Lens
There have been millions of words written and spoken about ‘informal’ and social learning over the past few years.<p>In fact, if a Martian had just …
Lessons kids have taught me
<b>The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutras community.<br>The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of</b> …
Mocking Up Is Hard To Do
Recently at Bearded we made a pretty drastic decision in terms of our web design process: <i>we’re not creating mock-ups anymore.</i><p>That is to say: we’re …
Newgrounds Touchjam Competition Results
The Newgrounds Touch Jam is now over, and the results are in! All games were played and tested by the Newgrounds staff, full details of which can be …
Framed: putting context in the player's hands
Loveshack's approach to interactive storytelling<p>In most video games, players are entrusted with performing actions: run, jump, shoot, swing, slash, crouch and curb-stomp. The developer sets the scene, establishes the context and the player is released into the world with an arsenal of actions. In …
Create
Looking for content published on the Adobe Inspire website? Inspire has changed its name to Adobe Create Magazine and retired outdated articles and …
Steven Spielberg's Lincoln ELearning Hub
Lincoln Learning Hub<p>TIMELINE<br>• WHAT WOULD LINCOLN DO?<br>• TEAM OF RIVALS<br>• WHO'S WHO OF CONGRESS<br>• ONE BRAVE THING<br>• RESOURCES