Professor Game

 Listen to this episode on your phone! Photo Credit: Douglas Morse; Website: www.tabletopmovie.com Matt Leacock is a board game designer living in Sunnyvale, California. In 2014, he quit his day job to work on board games full time. Before that, he designed games on nights and weekends while working as a user experience designer for a number of Silicon Valley companies. He’s best known for his cooperative games, Pandemic Continue Reading →

 Listen to this episode on your phone! Lee Sheldon is a game writer/designer, and educator. Until recently he was a professor of practice at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is author of The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game. It’s second edition was published in the spring of 2020; The Multiplayer Classroom: Game Plans, published in June 2021; and Character Development and Storytelling for Games, 3rd edition coming in Continue Reading →

 Listen to this episode on your phone! Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash This is an entirely different episode, I’m sharing a personal/professional update in my life! Listen up if you want to find out!   There are many ways to get in touch with Professor Game: Subscribe to Professor Game E-mail Newsletter LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Instagram Ask a question Looking forward to reading or hearing from you, Rob Continue Reading →

 Listen to this episode on your phone! Having recently joined ShowCode, Sheran is a key figure in organising and delivering their hackathons and coding competitions. He’s taking the lead in their upcoming hack ‘Level-Up Society’ which will give participants 48-hours to come up with something to help improve a pillar of society, using gamification.   Guest Links and Info Website: www.showcode.io Find ShowCode on LinkedIn Find Sheran on LinkedIn Continue Reading →

 Listen to this episode on your phone! Dave Beck is a practicing 3D digital and new media artist and designer, living in Wisconsin.  He is the creator of the award-winning video game, Tombeaux, and also recipient of the 2010 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge Award, given by the National Science Foundation.  Beck’s artwork has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, National Geographic, the journal Science, Continue Reading →

 Listen to this episode on your phone! Dov is a Tao-inspired agile, systemic, and exec coach, living in the heart of Paris with a woman and a dog. He’s an avid speaker and facilitator and has a love-hate relationship with serious games. He is the creator of the Meeting Spicer, a tool to hack meeting culture that he believes can change the world.   Guest Links and Info Website Continue Reading →

 Listen to this episode on your phone! Bob is an advocate of stewardship. He has always believed in taking care of the things that he has been blessed with. It is his mission to help others in doing the same. Bob’s perspective derives from a battle with cancer at age 18. After growing up an only child it wasn’t until he was legally an adult that he felt alone. Continue Reading →

 Listen to this episode on your phone! Erik is a researcher and developer of Learning Solutions. He’s the founder of Play Learn Develop and also a vegetarian. His research and products combine the use of Human Behaviour, tabletop games and Artificial Intelligence/Data Science. Over the past two years, he has worked with the University of Economics Krakow, in Poland, and with Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in Ireland. Currently, he’s Continue Reading →

 Listen to this episode on your phone! Bernardo started as a web designer back in 1998. He worked in JWT (marketing agency) for a year and afterward started his journey in the training world working at EduMac as an Adobe Certified Instructor. In 2008 he started working at the American School Foundation. Bernardo has been working as a freelancer forever and founded his company in 2011. In 2011 he Continue Reading →

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash  Listen to this episode on your phone! Special episode alert! This week we are asking for your help Engagers!  We have a shorter episode explaining how you can engage with Professor Game to activate the special powers (yes, oldie but goodie Wonder Twin Powers-like). All you have to do is go to professorgame.com/survey21, invest less than 5 minutes answering some questions and that’s Continue Reading →