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game design

Crystal gazing, GUIs and making computer games fun

March 17, 2009November 14, 2015 Wayne Barry

Last week, I read a couple of fascinating papers from the early 1980s by Thomas MaloneĀ (formerly a research scientist at Xerox PARC, but now the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management) who put forward a “set of heuristics or guidelines for designers of instructional computer games” (Malone, 1980, […]

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