Professor Game Podcast
Professor Game is a weekly podcast where we interview gurus, experts and successful practitioners of games, gamification and game thinking that bring us the best of their experiences to get ideas, insights and will inspire us in the process of getting students to learn what we teach.
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Javier Velasquez is Free to Play | Episode 337
04/22/2024
Javier Velasquez is Free to Play | Episode 337
Javier is Co-founder of Azahar Juegos and Free to Play, companies that focus on the design and research around the use of playful paradigms in serious contexts. He has 11 years of experience working on gamification projects and has collaborated on educational projects with institutions in Colombia such as Universidad de los Andes, Sergio Arboleda, Rosario, Uniminuto, and with companies such as Bancolombia, Compensar, Grupo Bolivar, among others. He is the designer of the BEM Framework for systemic and meaningful gamification and the recipient of two awards from Tech Magazine / Gamicon 2019 for gamification projects in virtual learning.
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Gaming at Work with Chris Slotboom | Episode 336
04/15/2024
Gaming at Work with Chris Slotboom | Episode 336
Meet Chris, founder of Gaming@Work. His company integrates Game Derived Skills·· and Game-based Learning for a dynamic workplace. With a background in International Hospitality and experience as a Partner Manager at Dell Technologies, specializing in Cloud and Gaming-as-a-Service, Chris brings expertise in various graphics/gaming workloads. He provides a unique tech perspective on employee growth. Chris aims to help organizations achieve digital transformation goals, keeping employees skilled and motivated without investing in expensive software. Regularly sharing insights on gaming culture, esports, and tech trends, connect with Chris to explore the future at GamingAt.Work and his blog, TeamLocktree.com
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Free Gamification Course! | Episode 335
04/08/2024
Free Gamification Course! | Episode 335
Engagers free resource out! In this episode, we explore a free mini-course we have just released that will allow you to either take your first steps in this Game Inspired world of Gamification, if you are a seasoned veteran you can add something different to your belt or anything in between, including curiosity, register for free at professorgame.com/freegamificationcourse. I'm looking forward to seeing you there and read any feedback you have!
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Tamer Asfahani Creates the Curriculum Around the Game | Episode 334
04/01/2024
Tamer Asfahani Creates the Curriculum Around the Game | Episode 334
The founder and director of Checkpoint, Tamer is dedicated to changing our perception of learning and the technology we use to enable learning. Advocate of gaming cultural wealth and the benefits gaming has, Tamer has spent years developing pedagogy through Checkpoint to help us benefit from our digital fluency. Driven by the failure of governments and education systems globally during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the hypocrisy around "screentime", Tamer focused on showcasing the benefits of gaming on well-being, education and as a social platform for children. This led to a partnership and study on the impact of gaming in education with Brunel University which proved incredibly successful. Tamer is also an award-winning producer and journalist who has worked across print, broadcast (TV and radio) and online.
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Bret Wardle on Connecting the Business and the Games | Episode 333
03/25/2024
Bret Wardle on Connecting the Business and the Games | Episode 333
Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Bret is a seasoned Game/Software professional with over 15 years of experience in crafting immersive games, innovative software, and user-friendly apps. His passion lies in bridging the realms of design psychology in both gaming and software landscapes. He's dedicated to uncovering the intriguing parallels between professional e-sport players and software power users, as well as exploring the social dynamics ignited by elements like "hi-scores" in e-commerce platforms. Bret delights in translating these insights into tangible enhancements, creating products and experiences that resonate deeply with users. Don't miss his enlightening 2022 TEDx Talk, "Can a 90s video game be a standard for experience design?", available online for a captivating dive into his perspective on the fusion of gaming and design.
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Helen Hooper First Figures Out How To Make the Players Feel | Episode 332
03/18/2024
Helen Hooper First Figures Out How To Make the Players Feel | Episode 332
Helen Hooper is head of learning design at VirtualSpeech which creates soft skills training solutions based around immersive practice in VR and online. Helen has a particular passion for creating engaging and effective learning experiences that involve active participation by the learner. Her rich background includes twelve years founding and running two award-winning educational startups focused on child development through active storytelling. And, long ago, after graduating from Oxford University - Helen spent nine years working in the UK Civil Service and European Commission (which she hated!). When not working she·s often found taxiing her 2 teenagers around or walking in the countryside with her husband and French dog, Garry.
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Bhaskar Thyagarajan Is Inspired by the Classic Games | Episode 331
03/11/2024
Bhaskar Thyagarajan Is Inspired by the Classic Games | Episode 331
Bhaskar Thyagarajan is the Founder & CEO of BlueSky Learning | KAIROS. BlueSky Learning is a consulting & training company with a vision of helping individuals, teams and organizations nurture and develop their Human skills. All programs are anchored in the experiential learning methodology. Kairos is a platform offering digital and in-person games & activities to the L&D community. They have been designing game-based learning modules with a focus on behavioral skills for 2 decades. Bhaskar is a facilitator, speaker and mentor focused on building institutional capability in game-based learning. He has trained over 400 trainers in facilitating experiential & game-based workshops, designed 30+ unique workshop designs, 100+ game-based learning modules and has rich experience of working with professionals across 30+ countries. He is also a founding member and Senior advisor at Koach.ai · a conversational AI-based coaching and mentoring app focused on youth and frontline employees.
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Kevin Burk Invites us to Play The Human Game | Episode 330
03/04/2024
Kevin Burk Invites us to Play The Human Game | Episode 330
Kevin B. Burk is the Headmaster of The Real Astrology Academy and the creator of the Human Game and the Human Game Experience. He has been counseling and coaching as an astrologer since 1998, teaching astrology since 2000, and is the author of more than a dozen books. The Human Game is a philosophy based on the idea that the Universe is made up of stories. The story is the smallest practical unit of reality. If everything is a story, when you understand how a story works, you can understand anything. The Human Game Experience is an astrology-based reality role-playing game that can give you creative control over The Story of Your Life. It·s an 8-week online program that helps you experience the potential of the Human Game philosophy with video tutorials, a comprehensive Player·s Handbook, personal coaching, and the support of a growing community of Human Game players around the world.
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Terry Pearce and Finding the Deeper Objectives in Gamification | Episode 329
02/26/2024
Terry Pearce and Finding the Deeper Objectives in Gamification | Episode 329
Terry has been a consultant in learning and development for over twenty years and specializes in creating and facilitating games-based and gamified learning experiences. He's the founder of Untold Play, via which he works with clients of all kinds to help make their learning experiences as gameful as possible. He's the creator of the Transform Deck, a games-based tool to inspire learning designers and creators to make their learning experiences more activity-led and learner-focused: the deck is being used to do just that in more than 20 countries worldwide. His current focus is his framework, the Six Levers of Games-based Learning, a tool to help learning designers and creators take inspiration from what works in games and apply it to their learning experiences. He writes and speaks regularly on games-based learning and gamification in as many places as possible, including for Bookboon, the world's largest corporate library provider, and Spiel Digital and the Playful Creative Summit.
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Jay Johnson Helps Use and Understand That Behavior is Choice | Episode 328
02/19/2024
Jay Johnson Helps Use and Understand That Behavior is Choice | Episode 328
Jay Johnson works with people and organizations to empower teams, grow profits, and elevate leadership. He is a Co-Founder of Behavioral Elements®, a two-time TEDx speaker, and a designated Master Trainer by the Association for Talent Development. With a focus on behavioral intelligence, Jay has delivered transformational workshops to accelerate high-performance teams and cultures in more than 30 countries across four continents.
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Charney Kaye Brings the Music Into the Mix | Episode 327
02/12/2024
Charney Kaye Brings the Music Into the Mix | Episode 327
Charney Kaye is a lifelong artist, musician, and hacker, the beneficial type, empathetically building technology to solve problems, and connecting software with media. Professionally, he's built an arsenal of skills ranging from typography to Java and honed his design thinking over hundreds of projects. Charney is both a seasoned veteran and a contemporary student of human-machine interaction, from R&D to implementation. He founded XJ Music to enable artists to compose new possibilities in background music for video games, live streaming, and environments.
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Steve Gullans on The Importance of Building Trust | Episode 326
02/05/2024
Steve Gullans on The Importance of Building Trust | Episode 326
Steve is an experienced executive, venture investor, entrepreneur, educator, scientist, and author. He is co-founder and CEO of Thynk, a digital health company advancing innovative brain training video games for children and adults. Previously, Steve held various roles in academia and industry. He began his career as a professor at Harvard Medical School where he co-authored more than 130 scientific papers and was elected a member of AAAS and AHA. Subsequently, he co-founded and held senior positions in several private and public life science companies. In addition, he co-founded and was Managing Director at Excel Venture Management, which invested in over 40 innovative startups. Steve loves innovation and has spoken widely, including at TED, TEDMED, and TEDx and, with Juan Enriquez, he co-authored ·Evolving Ourselves·. Throughout his career, he has focused on transformative technologies across many sectors of the economy and relishes opportunities to advance innovations that can help millions. He and his wife live in Boston and have 5 grandchildren who love doing STEM projects and playing Skylar·s Run.
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Tribute to Michael Sutton | Episode 325
01/29/2024
Tribute to Michael Sutton | Episode 325
This is our small tribute to a former guest, Michael Sutton who was on during our first year, as we recently got news that he has passed away. If you want to hear a bit more from him, here's an episode where I was leading a panel that Michael was a part of.
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Nazlı Öztürkmen Now Focuses on Web3 for Games and Gamification | Episode 324
01/22/2024
Nazlı Öztürkmen Now Focuses on Web3 for Games and Gamification | Episode 324
Nazli Ozturkmen has more than 10 years of professional experience in Fintech, insurtech, crypto technologies and Web3 as a Product Marketing and Product Management executive.
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Bartosz Skwarczek Creating a Vibrant Gaming Community | Episode 323
01/15/2024
Bartosz Skwarczek Creating a Vibrant Gaming Community | Episode 323
An entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience, coach, mentor, and public speaker. The founder and President of the Supervisory Board G2A Capital Group, to which belongs G2A.COM - the largest and most dynamically developing global marketplace for digital entertainment, where users can buy vouchers for digital products such as games, gift cards, subscriptions, or software. The marketplace already has over 25 million users from 180 countries around the world. A winner of the Forbes magazine·s BrandMe CEO award, the Digital Shaper Award and the Gold Medal of the Polish Academy of Success. He·s also a co-founder and member of business organizations such as the International Leaders Forum, Google Next Gen CEO Club and Facebook Client Advisory Board and the Polish Council of Global Businessmen. Graduate of the AGH University (University of Science) of Krakow and the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, as well as Executive Education programs at Harvard (Finance), MIT (IT, Blockchain, Platformization, Productivity), and Oxford (Fintech).
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Edgar Solano Upgrading Our Brains with Games | Episode 322
01/08/2024
Edgar Solano Upgrading Our Brains with Games | Episode 322
Edgar Guillermo Solano is the author of the Best Seller ·Innovation for square heads·. His new book, ·Playliving· shows how to take strategies used on games into the business world. Creator of the game and the book WakeUpBrain to accelerate innovation using games.. He has been Commercial and Marketing Manager in tech companies such as Hewlett Packard, Compaq and Lexmark. He is the director and host of the Podcast ·Square heads club·. He is the director of the WakeUpBrain Academy. He is also the creator of i-Tournaments, innovation tournaments designed to transform culture in companies.
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Happy 2024! | Episode 321
01/01/2024
Happy 2024! | Episode 321
Well, this time I'm writing this super late on a Sunday, December 31, 2023, as we've had some domestic complications (nothing huge, more on the episode). However, I did want to take some time to wish you the best for 2024 and leave some space for reflection! See you on the flip side!!
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Anton Hecht Makes Gameful Artwork in Unexpected Ways | Episode 320
12/25/2023
Anton Hecht Makes Gameful Artwork in Unexpected Ways | Episode 320
Anton Hecht is a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. He recently finished a Ph.D. in games for art in public space with others. He makes gameful artworks, across mediums, including with orchestras and dancers. He makes installations and experiences in non-traditional spaces. He has created work for many galleries and arts centers, including the South Bank in London. Much of his work is filmed and placed online where he has over two million views on his YouTube channel. He began the idea of Orchestral Flashmob in a bus garage in Newcastle. He looks for ways to engage others and to get them to contribute to making artwork in some manner.
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Michael Low Brings Role Playing Games to the Classrooms | Episode 319
12/18/2023
Michael Low Brings Role Playing Games to the Classrooms | Episode 319
Michael Low is a classroom educator with an MA in Secondary Education and over 20 years in the classroom. For the past four years, he's run Luck Of Legends, developing educational role-playing games for small groups and classrooms. As the co-creator and storyteller at StoriesRPG.com, he publishes play-at-home games for families and classrooms like Starsworn, Luna Uni, and Giga City Guardians, and co-hosts the Stories RPG podcast, which helps people of all ages leverage the power of role-playing to foster trust and creativity, build literacy, and deepen academic engagement. His classroom role·playing game for mastering writing, Luna Uni, is currently being playtested in a number of classrooms and led to huge gains in writing scores in two 5th-grade classes last spring.
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Pete Alexander Helps Us Reduce Stress | Episode 318
12/11/2023
Pete Alexander Helps Us Reduce Stress | Episode 318
Professor Pete Alexander is the President of the greatest interior landscaping company in the San Francisco Bay Area - Office Plants by Everything Grows. In addition, he serves as an adjunct college professor, where he helps inspire students to develop and apply key concepts of marketing specifically to their area of interest. He's also a TEDx speaker and best-selling author on reducing stress in your everyday life. Lastly, but certainly not least, he is a certified Laughter Yoga leader and improv comedy cast member, supporting his community to laugh more and stress less.
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Joe Schaeppi Understanding Players to Make Better Games | Episode 317
12/04/2023
Joe Schaeppi Understanding Players to Make Better Games | Episode 317
Meet Joe Schaeppi, a visionary in human psychology who wants to fundamentally change the way brands and audiences connect. As the CEO and founder of Solsten, an AI-powered platform for human-centric experiences, Joe is pioneering the use of video games for cognitive assessment, opening up new possibilities for not only the gaming industry but for mental health diagnostics and treatment. Armed with his experience leading UX strategy for Big Fish Games and MRM // McCann and his impactful work as a startup advisor, adventure-based psychotherapist, and ski ambassador for The North Face, Joe intrinsically understands the power of a people-first approach and is ready to help companies create healthier and livelier experiences for users without leaving them overstimulated and disconnected from the real world.
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Roger Peters Wins by Playing the Long Game of Being Nice | Episode 316
11/27/2023
Roger Peters Wins by Playing the Long Game of Being Nice | Episode 316
Roger Peters also known as Rook, owner of Epic Sages, an Army veteran, a husband and a father of 2. He lives in Fairbanks Alaska. He loves teaching and introducing people to TTRPGs (tabletop role-playing games) like DnD (Dungeons and Dragons). He is a consistent learner and constantly evolves himself and his business with new technology.
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Lance Brown Uses Influence to Move Forward | Episode 315
11/20/2023
Lance Brown Uses Influence to Move Forward | Episode 315
Lance is the creator of The Influence Formula and the popular Influence Spectrum Quiz. As a professional speaker, he has shared his groundbreaking formula with audiences across the country. His background includes time as a prolific fundraiser, dynamic sales trainer, highly-rated professor, and published author. He has a bachelor's degree in marketing and a master's degree in executive leadership. Lance is married and has six kids; they are all boys except for five of them. In his spare time, he enjoys competing in Mr. Clean look-alike competitions.
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Inge De Dreu Pushes Us Into Getting Started | Episode 314
11/13/2023
Inge De Dreu Pushes Us Into Getting Started | Episode 314
Founder of the Playground for Entrepreneurs, a serious game that supports entrepreneurship coaches and educators to provide engaging and insightful sessions, workshops and classes. The game is based on my experience coaching 500+ startup teams and their (regular) coaches in their early stages of entrepreneurship. Most of that experience comes from government entrepreneurship and innovation programs such as Apps.co (by the Colombian Ministry of ICT). I have also been active as a University Educator at Universidad del Rosario, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano (both in Colombia), Avans University of Applied Sciences (the Netherlands). I hold an MSc in General Management (Business Universiteit Nyenrode, the Netherlands) and an Executive MBA (Quantic Institute of Business and Technology).
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Eko Nugroho Facilitates Game-based Learning in Indonesia | Episode 313
11/06/2023
Eko Nugroho Facilitates Game-based Learning in Indonesia | Episode 313
Eko Nugroho has been at the forefront of driving the implementation of game-based learning and gamification in Indonesia over the past 14 years. Alongside his team at Kummara.com, Eko has offered consultancy and advisory services in the realm of serious meaningful games and interactive learning to various companies and organizations. Additionally, Eko serves as an advisory board member at Ludere Nusantara Foundation (Ludenara.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting teachers in implementing game-based learning programs and enhancing the overall quality of education throughout Indonesia. Eko is also a distinguished gamification expert and has been recognized as a finalist for the Gamification World Award. He is widely acclaimed as an international speaker, having presented at renowned events such as Gamification Europe, Gamicon48V US, and the Connected Learning Summit at MIT, among others.
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Danielle Meadows-Stinnett Does More Tetris and Less Mario in Gamification | Episode 312
10/30/2023
Danielle Meadows-Stinnett Does More Tetris and Less Mario in Gamification | Episode 312
Danielle is the owner of Octane Design Studios, a 13-year-old branding and identity firm based in the heart of the Bluegrass. Danielle is a creative, recently certified prompt engineer, podcaster, strategist, wife and mama of 3. She·s also a lover of Italian cuisine, chai, cosplay, comics and retro gaming. With over 15 years of marketing and multimedia agency experience, Danielle began as a grassroots developer and curator, helping brand and launch over 150 small businesses across America; · in Kentucky. As a third-generation entrepreneur, Danielle is an advocate of non-traditional education leading online meetups and workshops for DIY marketing. Her latest education platform Q1 Essentials is a gamified digital market cohort to help beginners enhance their digital marketing skills before the first business quarter of the new year. In 2021 Danielle restructured and launched Kentucky Creatives an all-new Kentucky-based membership community comprised of influencers, bloggers, photographers, copywriters, podcasters and more to help connect small businesses with influencers for their brand. As much as Danielle is passionate about providing creative services she strives to be more than just the graphics she creates. Over the years her hashtag #MoreThanGraphics has become more than just a marketing slogan; it has become a life principle for herself that she executes through storytelling and round table discussions with her co-hosts, all women of color as producer of the #MoreThanGraphics podcast.
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AnnMaria Demars Making Learning Games Where You Actually Learn | Episode 311
10/23/2023
AnnMaria Demars Making Learning Games Where You Actually Learn | Episode 311
After a stint in juvenile hall, AnnMaria ran away from her last foster home at age 15 and, with a fake ID, got a job and an apartment. By age 19 she had her bachelor·s degree, an MBA at 21. She was the first American to win a world judo championship, then retired from competition to earn her Ph.D., became a professor, and quit the university to start her first business after the death of her husband. She has founded four companies, raised four children, been one of Forbes 40 Women to Watch over 40, a Next Gen Leader of the International Game Developers Association Foundation and AARP Purpose Prize Winner. She and her daughter, Ronda Rousey, are the only mother-daughter combination in the International Sports Hall of Fame.
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Charisse Beach Finds Them Where They're at: Videogames | Episode 310
10/16/2023
Charisse Beach Finds Them Where They're at: Videogames | Episode 310
Charisse Beach is the founder and CEO of Youth Transformation Services (YTS), a nonprofit company providing training on Risk and Protective Factors, Mental Health Intervention, and Game-based Learning. Charisse also authored At-Risk Students: Transforming Student Behavior which details the warning signs of disturbing behaviors often overlooked by educators and/or misdiagnosed by mental health professionals. As a result, she co-created the Mental Health Intervention App (MHI) with her youngest son. MHI is a two-way communication tool that alerts healthcare providers of changes in their clients' mood and behavior. To learn more, visit www.youthts.org.
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Kevin Reste Designs for Player Choice in Games | Episode 309
10/09/2023
Kevin Reste Designs for Player Choice in Games | Episode 309
Kevin Reste operates at the unique intersection of art, media, and technology. As a Creative Operations Specialist, Artist, and Producer with an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons the New School of Design, his expertise is multifaceted. Kevin's contributions range from motion capture animation for the renowned Rock Band video game series to high-impact VFX work for artists like A$ap Rocky and Cardi B, along with key projects for Budweiser, Coca-Cola, and NFL Sunday Night Football. Serving as the Creative Officer at WebXR.tools and with notable collaborations with industry leaders like WPP and Droga, Kevin continuously pushes the boundaries of digital creativity. In a landscape ever-shifting between technical precision and creative expression, Kevin stands out as a strategic facilitator, ensuring these realms harmoniously converge for top-tier results.
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Lauran Kerr-Heraly Gets Anyone To Escape The (Class)Room | Episode 308
10/02/2023
Lauran Kerr-Heraly Gets Anyone To Escape The (Class)Room | Episode 308
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 helps develop a holistic approach to school success, which includes a focus on essential skills, executive function, and emotional awareness. She uses gamification in her coaching to motivate and engage. She shares a nerdy and adventurous life with her husband and 10yo in Houston, where they play a lot of board games (the more complicated, the better).
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