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Professor Game Podcast

#1 Gamification Podcast | Insights and Real-World Strategies to Boost Engagement, Loyalty & Retention. Professor Game helps innovators, product leaders, and educators use gamification and game thinking to create engagement that lasts. 🎙️ Hosted by Rob Alvarez — TEDx Speaker, consultant, and host of the #1 Gamification Podcast — each week brings you practical insights, case studies, and frameworks from 400+ global experts and proven real-world examples. Expect interviews with top practitioners in

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39:11

Getting The Good Game With John Fallon | Episode 120

Professor Game Podcast ·

2020/02/10

John Fallon is an English teacher at Notre Dame High School in West Haven, CT. John has designed Dolus: Finding the Journal of Odysseus an immersive ARG (alternate reality game) designed to augment his students’ exploration of Homer’s Odyssey. He also co-designed Blind Protocol with Paul Darvasi, an inter-school ARG for his 9th-grade students that instructs on research skills and privacy-related current events. He has also developed lessons to teach commercial games, like Her Story, as literary

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32:25

Paul Smith on How To Create Surprise and so Much More...

Professor Game Podcast ·

2020/02/03

Paul Smith is one of the world’s leading experts in business storytelling. He’s one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers of 2018, a storytelling coach, and bestselling author of the books The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell, Sell with a Story, Lead with a Story, and Parenting with a Story. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School, is a former consultant at Accenture, and former executive and 20-year veteran of The Procter & Gamble Company.

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39:58

Mike Rucker on the Science of Fun | Episode 118

Professor Game Podcast ·

2020/01/27

Dr. Michael Rucker is a peer-reviewed author with over a decade of professional writing experience. For many years he served as the Health Tech expert for About, Inc’s Verywell Health and is currently the Chief Digital Officer for Active Wellness, a global health management company ranked in the top 40 by Club Industry. This year Dr. Rucker was also tapped by HIMSS as a top 10 health influencer. He has been published in the academic journals International Journal of Workplace Health

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35:27

Steve Bocska Uses Gamification to Drive Customers Up...

Professor Game Podcast ·

2020/01/20

Steve is CEO of Pug Interactive, a technology & design leader in engagement, retention, and community activation. He has 17+ years of direct experience in the video game industry, having designed and produced several AAA games for Disney Interactive, Electronic Arts, Sega and Ubisoft that have generated sales in excess of $650 million. He is frequently sought as a speaker, having spoken at Game Developer’s Conference, South by Southwest, SIGGRAPH, Banff New Media Festival, GameON Finance, nextMEDIA

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37:38

Scott Crabtree Uses Gamification for his Happy Brain...

Professor Game Podcast ·

2020/01/13

Scott Crabtree helps people apply science to thrive at work. After earning a degree in cognitive science from Vassar College, he went on to lead the design and development of video games and other software. He discovered the science of thriving (positive psychology and other brain sciences) in 2003 and immediately became a passionate student and teacher of that research. He resigned his senior leadership position at Intel in 2011 to found Happy Brain Science. His Happy Brain Science clients include

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30:14

Jennifer Eberhardt Smith Plays Her Game of Colors |...

Professor Game Podcast ·

2020/01/06

Jennifer Eberhardt Smith is the author of Donuts and Dandelions, finding your Joy and Growth. The simple philosophy of focusing on two main life goals helps clarify what you truly want in life. She is the creator of the arts/communication app Paint To Me, which is the culmination of a years-long project. Jennifer is now focusing on helping others through their life journey, either as a coach or speaker, both one on one and in the professional world.

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38:38

Jordan DeVries with the UX to make gamification great...

Professor Game Podcast ·

2019/12/30

Jordan DeVries is the Director of UX at Brave UX, based in Washington DC. His clients include Royal Caribbean, Marriott, Discovery Networks, Gensler, Eli Lilly, Rosetta Stone, and ClearChannel. His first exposure to gaming was watching his mother beat Super Mario World. His most recent gaming achievement is reaching Elite in Smash Bros Ultimate Online.

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35:39

J Scott Christianson with The Blockchain Game |...

Professor Game Podcast ·

2019/12/23

Scott is a successful instructor and business owner with more than 24 years of experience in networking, videoconferencing technology, and project management. He currently serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Missouri where his interests are focused on the impact of technology on society and human well-being. He has also created The Blockchain Game to explain how blockchain works to his classes and non-technical managers. It has been used all over the world by various

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33:50

Lars Hoffmann Creates Strategic Learning Boardgames |...

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2019/12/16

Lars Hoffmann is the Learning Director of DHI, a global water engineering consultancy and software provider. He has used, designed and sold learning games for more than 20 years, working both within and as a consultant in leadership development and change for large international organizations. He has a background in psychology and very much prefers board games to computer games, even though DHI is digitalizing heavily – also in the delivery of training for its clients.

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41:01

Bobby Lockhart talks about the main learning game...

Professor Game Podcast ·

2019/12/09

Bobby Lockhart is an award-winning designer of educational games. He has designed and developed games based on popular Intellectual Properties like Jurassic World and Batman, and has created games for institutions like the Notebaert Nature Museum and the Anti-Cruelty Society. His games have been shown at the Bit Bash festival, Alt.Ctrl at GDC, and the Games•Learning•Society conference. He is an expert blogger of game design on gamasutra.com, and has given talks at Play*Make*Learn, M-Dev, and the

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37:18

Loretta Breuning and the happy brain chemicals for...

Professor Game Podcast ·

2019/12/02

Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD, is author of Habits of a Happy Brain, and founder of the Inner Mammal Institute. She's Professor Emerita of Management at California State University, East Bay. As a teacher and a mom, she was disappointed by prevailing theories of human motivation. Her search for answers led to the brain chemistry we share with animals, and then everything made sense. She knew this information could help people, so she set about creating resources. Her books have been translated into

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36:39

Jason Bodnar has Element Poker for School | Episode 109

Professor Game Podcast ·

2019/11/25

Jason has been teaching high school science for 13 years and enjoys spending time with his 5-year-old daughter when he isn't designing games or running the board game club at school. He also loves playing the piano and going to concerts. Jason started Engage Games about a year ago with the goal of developing games that help students become engaged in content in a fun and unique way.

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45:13

Lee Sheldon Writes Games for the Classroom | Episode 108

Professor Game Podcast ·

2019/11/18

Lee Sheldon is a game writer/designer; professor of practice in Interactive Media & Game Development at Worcester Polytechnic Institute; author: The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game (2 nd edition coming 2020), The Multiplayer Classroom: Game Plans; and Character Development and Storytelling for Games (3 rd edition coming 2020). Recent games: The Lion’s Song (PC, Mac, iOS, Android); Suburbia 2 (Facebook); Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved (Xbox). Classes designed as games: The Janus

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33:17

Second Anniversary of Professor Game! | Episode 107

Professor Game Podcast ·

2019/11/11

This episode is, not only our celebration for the anniversary, it is also special because it is something new I haven't tried on the podcast before. It is a completely solo episode, where I share with you, The Engagers, what is the general process I use for creating a solution with gamification. It is general, there is a lot more detail behind but I wanted to make sure you have open access to the basics. Enjoy and let me know if you have questions!

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36:40

Business Learning Games 2019 Panel Discussion [Part...

Professor Game Podcast ·

2019/11/04

This special episode is part 2 of the live recording of the panel that was held on the Business Learning Games Conference 2019 in Lisbon, organized by the Business Excellence Institute. In part 1, we were left with a cliffhanger with regards to a question about the relevance and even the desirability of flow. This second part is the rest of the discussion and it features even more participation from the audience, which was great but also unexpected!

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29:21

Business Learning Games 2019 Panel Discussion |...

Professor Game Podcast ·

2019/10/28

This special episode is the live recording of the panel that was held on the Business Learning Games Conference 2019 in Lisbon, organized by the Business Excellence Institute. The panel had quite a broad topic, and as such features questions from Rob as head of the discussion but also questions and comments from the audience itself.

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38:01

Paul Darvasi finds the right videogames for...

Professor Game Podcast ·

2019/10/21

Paul Darvasi is an educator, game designer, speaker and writer whose work looks at the intersection of games, culture and learning. He teaches English and media studies, is a doctoral candidate at York University, and a founding member of the Play Lab at the University of Toronto. His research explores how commercial video games can be used as texts for critical analysis by adolescents. He has designed pervasive games that include The Ward Game, based on Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,

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36:57

Games and Gamification in VR with Danny Stefanic |...

Professor Game Podcast ·

2019/10/14

Danny Stefanic is the brains behind the world’s first WebXR learning experience platform, LearnBrite. Also founder of 3D internet company ExitReality Inc, founder of the International Virtual Reality Association and chairman of the virtual worlds social network Koinup. Called a “visionary” by his peers and deemed by Wall Street CIOs and Silicon Valley VCs to be “one of the pioneers in his field”, he has been creating ground-breaking 3D businesses for over 25 years. Danny actively works with young

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42:22

Jesse Schell Lets His Mind Create Solutions Through...

Professor Game Podcast ·

2019/10/07

Jesse Schell is the CEO of Schell Games, a team of one hundred people who strive to make truly great games, both for the purposes of entertainment and education, including award-winning VR games such as I Expect You To Die, HoloLAB Champions, and Star Wars: Droid Repair Bay. Jesse serves as Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University and is the author of the award-winning book The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses.

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41:45

Systems Games with Dan Norton of Filament Games |...

Professor Game Podcast ·

2019/09/30

As Chief Creative Officer and co-founder of Filament Games, Dan Norton oversees Filament’s design team and works on continuously improving the company’s design process. Dan has designed games about a uniquely broad range of topics, ranging from marine turtle ecology to legal argumentation. His games have won numerous industry awards and have been played millions of times in classrooms across the country. Dan approaches each new project at Filament as an opportunity to find authentic passion and

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