When you become older it is important to maintain an active lifestyle. An active lifestyle has been proven to be the recipe towards healthy ageing. This paper presents a product to motivate elderly people to go outside and be physically active through the use of gamification. The elderly people are between …

OrangeGames wants to create a slot machine mini game in their most popular game Governor of Poker 3 (GOP3). In the past however OrangeGames has made a slot machine game called "Poker Slots", which due to certain design choices was really unsuccessful, as almost no players returned to play it. That is …

In opdracht van stichting Travers Welzijn en ontwerpstudio Beeldprikkels is er een spelconcept ontwikkeld voor een interactieve mobiele applicatie om buitenspelen onder kinderen van 9-12 jaar uit Zwolle-Zuid te stimuleren. In stadsdeel Zwolle-Zuid wordt er door kinderen namelijk weinig buiten gespeeld, …

Purpose: To examine the effects of different small-sided games (SSGs) on physical and technical aspects of performance in wheelchair basketball (WB) players. Design: Observational cohort study. Methods: Fifteen highly trained WB players participated in a single 5v5 (24-s shot clock) match and …

In social settings, people often need to reason about unobservable mental content of other people, such as their beliefs, goals, or intentions. This ability helps them to understand, to predict, and even to influence the behavior of others. People can take this ability further by applying it recursively. …

Games are designed with different objectives in mind. Some primarily for entertainment, others also to educate, motivate or persuade its players. Games with the latter objective, that of persuasion, are designed not only to be entertaining, but also with the intent to shape how players think and feel …

More and more people suffer from age-related eye conditions, e.g. Macular Degeneration. One of the problems experienced by these people is navigation. A strategy shown by many juvenile visually impaired persons (VIPs) is using auditory information for navigation. Therefore, it is important to train age-related …

The News Frontier is a start up that specializes in making newsgames. A newsgame is like a regular game, only the narrative is not fictional like most games. It is based on a real life event. I think it is necessary to realize that only bigger events will make it into a game, because of the time it takes …

Gamification heeft de afgelopen jaren een flinke opmars gemaakt in het onderwijs en in het bedrijfsleven. Een bekend voorbeeld waar gamification wordt toegepast is de app Duolingo. Met deze app worden gebruikers gemotiveerd om taaloefeningen te maken door gedrag te belonen met punten. Maar er is ook …