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Should I Make My Custom Educational Game in Virtual Reality? (Part 1)

Greetings! If you’re reading this blog, I’m guessing you’re thinking of investing in making a custom educational game in virtual reality. Rest assured that you are in good company. Studies show that VR in education will continue to grow – most recently, a study from Statista predicts that by 2025, VR in education is set…

August 2, 2021 // Jennifer Javornik

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Should I Make My Custom Educational Game in Virtual Reality? (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this series, I shared my thoughts on why VR can be great for learning and great for your organization. In Part 2 of this series, I’m sharing why VR may not be ideal for your custom educational game project and some other considerations that you should be thinking about… via GIPHY…

August 9, 2021 // Jennifer Javornik

How Digital Games are Changing Educational Space

In our previous post on games and content creation, we touched on how Brown University Ph.D. fellow and rapper Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo was able to provide her campus with a new sort of communal space when she teamed up with the Brown Arts Initiative to present a series of concerts in Minecraft. With distance learning not…

October 18, 2021 // Alyssa Froehling

What’s New in Game-based Learning – November 2021

Be-leaf it or not, the month of turkey, pumpkin pie, and cranberries galore is upon us! And with every new month comes a new installment of What’s New in Game-based Learning, a cornucopia of noteworthy news from all around the world to keep you updated on GBL while you sip that PSL. Let’s get into…

November 1, 2021 // Alyssa Froehling

What’s New in Game-based Learning – December 2021

It may be hard to believe, but 2021 is almost behind us! Let’s not get too ahead of ourselves, though – we have a whole month left until we ring in a new year. With every new month comes a new round-up of game-based learning news that you don’t want to miss! via Giphy The…

December 1, 2021 // Alyssa Froehling

5 More Great Music Education Games

As a kid, I spent too much time playing Rock Band and not enough time practicing my actual guitar. Perhaps an educational game would have been the perfect middle ground to keep me motivated to learn an instrument – which is why today, we are doing another installment on music education games! via Giphy Though…

December 8, 2021 // Alyssa Froehling

A 2021 Holiday Buyer’s Guide to Educational Games ✨🎁

It’s that time of year again. With each day that passes, we get closer to everyone’s favorite holiday – Toy Day! But even if you’re not planning on spending your holidays running errands for a reindeer named Jingle who is incompetent at his job (seriously – who forgets wrapping paper when their job is delivering…

December 13, 2021 // Alyssa Froehling

5 Educational Games We’re Excited to Play in 2022

🚨Attention – this is not a drill! Those once far-off release dates are getting closer and closer!🚨 A new year means new games, and we don’t know about you, but we are excited already just looking at a small sample of what 2022 has to offer when it comes to educational games! via Giphy As…

January 12, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

Learning in the Metaverse

As a company that leverages video games in the service of learning, we get excited about technological advances that unlock novel ways to deliver digital play. Every new game development tool/hardware offers new affordances that facilitate new types of learning experiences and fuel our collective imagination. When HTML5 landed, we rejoiced at the prospect of…

February 28, 2022 // Dan White

Video Games and Mental Health (Part 2)

Over a year ago, we covered the mental health-related potential of video games for clinical treatment, self-care, and advocacy. Since then, more game-based tools for mental health care, treatment, and diagnosis have emerged thanks to the work of researchers, doctors, and other mental health professionals. On platforms from mobile apps to the metaverse, video game…

March 28, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

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