Every episode of the Professor Game podcast, hosted by Rob Alvarez of The Octalysis Group. Honest breakdowns of gamification, behavioral design, and the Octalysis Framework, applied to real products, retention, and engagement. New episodes weekly, plus interviews with leading experts.
Will Rush Teaching Finance with Gamification | Episode 235
Listen to this episode on your phone! Over the past twelve years, Will has worked with seven different billion-dollar banking and securities companies. During that time, he witnessed long-time industry incumbents lose market share to FinTech unicorns, as products democratized access to financial markets and […]
Noa Lahav is Cross-pollinating Games-based Learning | Episode 234
Listen to this episode on your phone! Noa Lahav is a community manager at the Tech Innovation Unit in the Israeli Ministry of Education, and head of Start GameDev – a unique program where teachers become game developers, using a no-code game engine. They learn […]
Danielle Orsino Goes Deep into Worldmaking | Episode 233
Listen to this episode on your phone! Danielle M. Orsino is a fantasy novelist whose lifelong vision is to create whimsical realms that her readers can escape to. Her compelling word-weaving pays homage to a multitude of personal muses, from Chris Claremont and George Pérez […]
Tammie Schrader Got Into Games Before Playing Them | Episode 232
Listen to this episode on your phone! Tammie Schrader is a science and computer science coordinator at Northeast Washington Education Service 101 for the State of Washington. She serves 59 public schools in their science and computer science implementation. Recently, Tammie has worked with the […]
Barbara Chamberlin Gets People Thinking About Games and Education | Episode 231
Listen to this episode on your phone! Barbara Chamberlin directs research and development at the Learning Games Lab at New Mexico State University. She first started developing educational games in the early 90s and sought her doctorate to help guide ways research could inform the design […]