Digital Game Knowledge

Definition:

From there dimension: Game Play, Game Design, Game Production.

• Digital Game Play: Understanding how to play the digital game, and play it well. Players must focus on the experiences what you feel in the games.   
• Digital Game Design: Understanding game structure, game elements. Figure out how to design the digital games. One of the most important things is to get a good game idea. 
• Digital Game Production: Understanding the approaches of producing digital games, included programming, media, etc.    

Educational Games Review Website

I want to find out the educational game design strategies from exiting educational games. The first step was to survey all of educational game website from Google Search in different   keywords included leaning subjects, learning units, top 10, award, grant...

Online data collection (educational games)

Keywords:

1. physics, chemical, biological, earth science, science education, science learning

2. learning game, education game, educational game

3. the best, top 100, award, popular, review, report, recommendations, recommend, grant(s) ...

Results

1. Funschool - Fun and Educational Games and Activities for Kids http://funschool.kaboose.com 

2. Top 10 Most Visited Educational Games http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/ 

3. Gamestar Mechanic http://gamestarmechanic.com

4. 2012 International Serious Play Awards http://www.seriousplayconference.com/awards/

5. 2012 KAPi Awards http://childrenstech.com/blog/archives/6034

6. Common Sense Media  http://www.commonsensemedia.org/game-reviews

7. IndieCade http://www.indiecade.com

8. The Best Websites for Teaching and Learning  http://www.ala.org/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/bestlist/bestwebsites

to be continued...

Gamestar Mechanic

http://gamestarmechanic.com


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