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< < < There’s a large body of research on games and attention, supporting these general conclusions. Outside academia, both Dr Gazzaley and Dr Bavelier have given talks at TED events (here’s hers and his ), contributing to a representation of ‘games’ as beneficial brain trainers that will improve society and make us happier (for a sample, have a look at the rest of the TED site, or search for news about games and education ). This is less depressing than reading the headli

One of the concerns people still sometimes have about using games in schools is “aren’t games bad for you?” And of course the answer is, “it depends”. Like all media, there are times when the story or setting …

The BBC Future site recently featured US organisation Glasslab’s current educational gaming project, adapting SimCity from the code up and aligning the tasks players face with the US Common Core curriculum standards. It’s the latest in a twenty-year …

Last Friday 1 November, nine schools under the Singapore Ministry of Education came together at the Alienware Arena cyber cafe to discuss their use of games for learning, along with play and media creation as pedagogy on the …

For four days, running from the 28th to the 31st of October, Playware alongside partner Autodesk was invited by the Ministry of Education in Brunei to conduct workshop training for their officers on how to use games for …

Today is an exciting day for both Playware and the Health Promotion Board as it is the launch day for Zombie Tooth, a game to teach kids about oral hygiene set in a post apocalyptic Singapore where zombies …

Last Oct 10-12, we were at United World College Southeast Asia’s Learning 2.0 event showcasing 3DHive to many of the international schools participating from all over the region. Here’s a synopsis of what the event is all about: …

4 Questions with…KENNETH, 3D Artist and Game Designer A cupful of 3D art development, a cupful of level design and testing, a tablespoon of game design mixed in with a hint of 2D art are the ingredients of …

The ICEM 2013 conference is being held at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore this year, and it is Playware’s first time participating by presenting a paper. This year’s conference theme is ‘we-Learning: Content, Community and Collaboration’ and recognises the rapid …

This year’s Mobilearn Asia 2013 event is being held at Suntec Convention Centre and is a conference and exhibition on mobile learning, eLearning and learning technologies. Creative Director Sid Jain was a Day 1 speaker talking about “Challenges …

Playware Studios’ Game Artist, George, always found art to be his favourite subject in school. Doodling on his textbooks and classrooms tables, he had no idea his attempt at creating a trading card game with a classmate would …

Last September 18, Wellington Primary School held the National Primary Games Creation Competition (NPGCC 2013) which had over 500 students from 40 schools all over Singapore participate. Principal Gary Tsu was able to envision the use of games-for-learning …

In my previous two posts here, I described some of the research work that we’ve been carrying out with a local primary school using 3DHive, and discussed what we’ve learned about the importance of preparing well – thinking …

So in the last post I introduced myself and the research work we’ve been doing with schools. In this one, I want to talk about a couple of factors that were crucial in making sure 3DHive was used …

Using games to teach is hard. Over the past ten years, research has repeatedly shown that, despite the clear potential for games to play a powerful role in formal curricular teaching, the complexity of the classroom context and …

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I recently came across an interesting article on game based learning environments being powerful tools for STEM. It talks about the importance for students to not just play video games in the classroom, but also to spend time …

< . MY FAVOURITE GAME OF ALL TIME … I like to play strategy games such as Warcraft III, fantasy adventure RPGs like Final Fantasy and 3D fantasy MMOs like League of Legends and DotA. MY MOST MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE IN PLAYWARE SO FAR… So far, every moment I have been with Playware has been memorable. Together with Mitch, I work mostly in the 3DHive Builder; adding additional features. I use AS3 as the base language and work on web development projects using C# and .net language.

We’re pretty excited here at Playware Studios! Just as Jon’s interview went out last week, we stumbled onto a review of Head Hunters, a game he designed under 20 Percent. Here’s an excerpt of the review: “… the satisfaction …

Senior 3D artist Jon Chan has been with Playware Studios since the very beginning in 2005. Dabbling occasionally in the creation of game levels within 3D Hive, he prefers designing challenges rather than narratives. We find out from …