What if we designed through playful values?

I have been thinking a lot recently about values-based design and, more specifically, what it might mean to approach design … More

Ludic Design in 2025: Community, Care, and Purposeful Play

As we come to the end of 2025, we are reflecting on a year that has been firmly grounded in … More

Playful, Frugal, and Co-Creative Learning: Insights from the ACES Project

Two new articles published this summer capture the journey and insights from the ACES project, which I had the privilege … More

Playful learning for developing resilience?

It is time of the year for the annual (peer-reviewed) European Conference on Game-Based Learning (ECGBL) and I am so … More

Mapping learning aspects to mini-game elements

We recently presented and published a paper on micro-learning and mini-gaming at the ECGBL 2020 conference, featuring our pedagogy-informed design … More

@Disrupt_Learn and colleagues at #ECGBL2018 representing #GChangers @_myCapsule @BeaconingEU #GBL #Gamification

ECGBL is the place to be if you are a researcher, practitioner, enthusiast, developer and designer of game-based learning. ECGBL … More

C4Rs.eu at VSGames 2018

There is a number of evidence that suggests that games and gamified applications can drive collective action in the real … More

Co-creativity inspired by play and games

Recently keynoted at the ever so successful Remix Play 2 Summit at Coventry University’s Disruptive Media Learning Lab. Huge congratulations … More

Trans-disciplinary model for Game-Based Intervention design

The design and development of game-based application aimed at serious purposes has to consider considerations from relevant disciplines. And it … More