We hosted a public game play session of “A Paycheck Away” as part of the Spirit and Place Festival last Friday, November 9th. 140 people gathered together to play as a homeless character and try to get out of homelessness … Continue reading
We Host Our First Game For Change This Friday… and It’s “Sold Out”
We are passionate about game based learning at BLP. We’ve read the research – and conducted some of our own – and seen both with client projects and the case studies of others that it is a powerful tool for … Continue reading
#G4C Part 4: How to Use Play Test Results to Improve Learning Game Design
We’ve made it to Part Four of our Games for Change blog series. In Part One, we gave some back story about our game, A Paycheck Away. In Part Two, we talked about our first game design workshop. Part Three was all about … Continue reading
#G4C Part 3: How to Play Test Learning Games
This marks part three of our Games for Change blog series. In Part One, we gave some back story about our game, A Paycheck Away. In Part Two, we talked about our first game design workshop. The game will be … Continue reading
Games For Change Part 2: How We Ran Our Learning Game Design Workshop
This marks part two of our Games for Change blog series. In part one, we gave some backstory about our game, A Paycheck Away. We are designing the game and playing it as an exhibition at the 2012 Spirit and … Continue reading
Games for Change Part 1: The Power of Urgent Optimism in Learning Games
Games change us. They change our brains and they change how we think. They put us in the middle of situations we would have never imagined or expected and allow us to make choices and decisions we never thought possible. … Continue reading






