Lauran Kerr-Heraly Gets Anyone To Escape The (Class)Room | Episode 308

 Listen to this episode on your phone! Lauran Kerr-Heraly is an award-winning educator and author. She currently serves as a history professor and Innovation Fellow at Houston Community College. Her innovative teaching includes turning a classroom into an escape room, multidisciplinary projects showcasing personal food histories and environmental justice, and playing with experimental learning spaces. As an executive function coach, she works with teens and their parents too. She Continue Reading →

Antonis Triantafyllakis with Physical yet Scalable Gamification of Sustainability | Episode 307

Listen to this episode on your phone! Well this is special, because it’s the first time I decide to just go with an interview with a fellow gamification practitioner “only” because we are physically in the same space (and it is not during a conference or anything). So Antonis Triantafyllakis is a past guest, and we’ve had coffee in Madrid now twice (he came about two years ago) but this Continue Reading →

Liam Brown Brings Purpose into Gaming and Esports | Episode 306

Listen to this episode on your phone! As a Corporate Partnerships Manager for Knights Esports Group, Liam is a leading authority on competitive gaming, event management, league organization, and technology development. Unlike many in the gaming industry, Liam chose the traditional path of pursuing higher education, attending the University of Pittsburgh straight out of high school. During his senior year, he discovered his passion for leveraging gaming as a means Continue Reading →

Paul Zolman with the Roll of Love Game | Episode 305

Listen to this episode on your phone! Paul starts by saying that the author of love is God. In His wisdom, He placed us in a variety of circumstances that require us to find our way back to His pure love. So, what qualifies Paul Zolman to speak about love? His childhood experience of the opposite of love. From that austere beginning, and the distaste it formed inside him, he Continue Reading →

Bob Moog Uses Games for the Tough Concepts | Episode 304

Listen to this episode on your phone! Bob Moog co-founded University Games in 1985 to develop, design and manufacture social interaction games for families. Since that time, he has developed more than 200 game and toy products that have sold more than 30 million units. These games include the best-selling geography game line, Carmen Sandiego, the first line of games based on Dr. Seuss books, including The Green Eggs and Continue Reading →

2023 Summer Break Update | Episode 303

Listen to this episode on your phone! Quick update on our summer break! In the image below you can see our baby enjoying the sand and the water at the beach, but it didn’t start out that way! Quick episode with a quick lesson I’ve been reminded of, and it has to do with the onboarding of experiences. Have a quick listen to understand what we’re talking about.     Continue Reading →

2023 Summer Break | Episode 302

Listen to this episode on your phone! Photo by john vargues on Unsplash Special episode Engagers! This is your reminder to take a step back of what’s been going on and to get your glass filled with energy once more!   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 Continue Reading →

Gamification Example in Action | Episode 301

Listen to this episode on your phone! Photo by Filios Sazeides on Unsplash This is a bonus on the series of the gamification process! It would be the seventh part of the series, so if you haven’t listened to or seen Gamification Intro (Episode 295), Setting Up With Objectives for Gamification (Episode 296), Who Are Your Players (Episode 297), Choosing and Using Game Mechanics (Episode 298), Storyboarding and Prototyping (Episode 299) or Playtesting Continue Reading →

Playtesting and Iteration | Episode 300

Listen to this episode on your phone! Photo by Filios Sazeides on Unsplash Episode 300 is here!!! Wow, it’s been a while, many interviews and some solo episodes like this one. Thanks for your support, whether starting just now or continued for many episodes, I appreciate you as an Engager and I’m sure you will continue to find value here. For this episode we close the cycle with playtesting your Continue Reading →

Storyboarding and Prototyping | Episode 299

Listen to this episode on your phone! Photo by Filios Sazeides on Unsplash On this episode, we discuss the importance and strategy of going into storyboarding and then prototyping. This is the fifth part of the series, so if you haven’t listened to or seen Gamification Intro (Episode 295), Setting Up With Objectives for Gamification (Episode 296), Who Are Your Players (Episode 297) or Choosing and Using Game Mechanics (Episode Continue Reading →