Welcome to Lift your (museum) game. This was a site for people who make museum games to share their hard-earned wisdom - evaluation, research, references, methods...
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Museum Game Examples
Educational Game Examples
Wiki contributors
Conferences and events
Museum games hack - planning events to help museums design games
Games evaluations
Games Design Platforms for Kids
www.GameSalad.com
http://www.globaloria.org/
http://gamestarmechanic.com/
http://www.activategames.org/
http://scratch.mit.edu/
http://www.edventurebuilder.com
Museums and the Web 2014 related sessions and papers
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Session: Games: Design, deployment and preservation. Practical tips and best practices in game development and management from inception to archiving.
- Game Mechanics and the Museum: Designing simple gameplay around complex content
- David Schaller, USA
- Metadata for Digitally Distributed Video Games at the Seattle Interactive Media Museum
- Jin Ha Lee, USA, Andrew Perti, USA, Rachel Ivy Clarke, USA
- Treasure hunt games creator – a system and its application at the Hecht Museum, the University of Haifa
- Tsvi Kuflik, Israel, Suzy Salman, Israel
Museums and the Web 2013 related sessions and papers
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Playtesting PlanetMania: A Mobile Game for Museum Exhibits
Museums and the Web 2012 related sessions and papers
Museums and the Web 2011 related sessions and papers
From Knowledge to Narrative – to Systems? At the junction of game design and museum education
Playing with museums - game designs to improve museum collections (and related, Mia's 'Playing with difficult objects: game designs for crowdsourcing museum metadata (unpublished MSc dissertation);)
Museum Games: Some Strategies for Achieving Project Goals
An ubiquitous mobile edutainment application for learning science through play
Mini-Workshop on Games: I
MP For A Week: An Immersive Game De-mystifying the UK Parliament
General Games Literature
Games and cultural heritage
“Using Computer Games to Popularize History”, James Cobb, Cardinal Stritch University (Word doc) from The Historical Society’s 2012 conference.
Gamification [for good or evil]
Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World -by Jane McGonigal
Gamification and Avoiding the Fate of ARGs, - Tahdg Kelly, Gamasutra
Can’t play, won’t play - Margaret Robertson
Pawned. Gamification and Its Discontents and Just add points? What UX can (and cannot) learn from game design. - Sebastian Deterding. Other excellent talks also linked from this page.
Papers from CHI2011 workshop, Gamification: Using Game Design Elements in Non-Gaming Contexts available for download at that link.
http://gamification.org/wiki/Gamification_Books contains a big list of books related to many aspects of game design and gamification
Literature on Gaming & Learning
Special edition of International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) on 'Games for learning' (2014)
Literature Review in Games and Learning. Futurelab (2004) http://telearn.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/19/04/53/PDF/kirriemuir-j-2004-r8.pdf
What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee http://t.co/OSGBpXf
Everything Bad is Good For You: How Today's Pop Culture is Making Us Smarter. by Steven Johnson
Ten Surprising Truths about Videogames and Learning
Top 100 Learning Game Resources collected by Abhijit Kadle.
Game Play: how to develop engaging games for a discerning audience by Martha Henson and Danny Birchall, in Museum/iD No. 10
Contrasts in student engagement, meaning-making, dislikes, and challenges in a discovery-based program of game design learning by Rebecca Reynolds and Idit Harel Caperton in Educational Technology Research and Development.
Aligning game activity with educational goals: following a constrained design approach to instructional computer games by Brett E. Shelton and Jon Scoresby in Educational Technology Research and Development.
Measuring learning in serious games: a case study with structural assessment by Pieter Wouters, Erik D. van der Spek and Herre van Oostendorp in
Educational Technology Research and Development.
Literature on Game Design
Jesse Schell's Art of Game Design http://amzn.to/dE201w
Raph Koster's A Theory of Fun for Game Design http://www.amazon.co.uk/Theory-Game-Design-Raph-Koster/dp/1932111972
Salen and Zimmerman's Rules of Play http://www.amazon.com/Rules-Play-Game-Design-Fundamentals/dp/0262240459
Eric Klopfer and Kurt Squire Environmental Detectives: The Development of an Augmented Reality Platform for Environmental Simulations (pdf)
Literature on General Interactive Design
Art of Interactive Design by Chris Crawford http://amzn.to/gl0zqe
Literature on Gaming and Narrative
Quests: Design, Theory, and History in Games and Narratives by Jeff Howard
Academic Journals related to gaming
International Journal of Computer Game Research http://gamestudies.org
Games and Culture http://gac.sagepub.com/
Conferences related to Educational games
Games for Change http://www.gamesforchange.org/
Serious Games Summit http://www.gdconf.com/conference/sgs.html
Games, Learning, and Society http://www.glsconference.org/2011/
Meaningful Play http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu/
IndieCade http://www.indiecade.com/index.php
(not 'educational, per se, but the conference leans towards the academic/theoretical, and Bogost and Zimmerman are usually speakers)
Interest Groups/Meetups related to educational games
PEG-LA (Pervasive and Environmental Gaming - Los Angeles) - we meet about 1x per month to brainstorm, share and playtest! Sign up for the FB group to get notifications.
London Educational Games MeetUp: The aim of this group is to link people involved in or interested in getting involved in making educational games and apps.
Games and Learning Resource Sites
Game Based Learning http://www.gamebasedlearning.org.uk/
Evaluations of Learning Games
WolfQuest Summative Evaluation: Complete Report and MW Paper
Whyville Evaluation - evaluation of the Getty Museum's games on Whyville
When is your game not a game?
When it's a quiz or a puzzle, for a start...
These Are NOT Serious Games! - blog post by Abhijit Kadle
Key Games Bloggers
--academic
Ian Bogost (Georgia Tech) http://www.bogost.com/blog/
Jeff Watson (USC) http://remotedevice.net/blog/
--reviews
[jump in and edit if you'd like to share your favourite game review site]
--educational
Educational Games Research http://edugamesresearch.com/blog/
--industry news
Gamasutra http://www.gamasutra.com/
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Comments (1)
Mia said
at 2:55 pm on Apr 12, 2011
I renamed the site from 'museumgames' to 'Lift your (museum) game', hope no-one minds! If you can think of a better name, let's go with that.
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