Plus 7 Intelligence | How Games Impact People
What happens when an entire generation of gamers enter the workforce, academia, and government? The world is undergoing an experiment. The implications are growing steadily and invisibly. +7 Intelligence is here to shed light on how the virtual and real worlds collide.
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May 5, 2019 • 5 mins
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+7 Intelligence is the podcast about how games impact people.
Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, profess...
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April 1, 2019 • 70 mins
Sarah Roman and Kade Wells revolutionized their classrooms using Dungeons & Dragons. Now they are helping teachers around the world do the same.
Part of the Games + Education series
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Teaching with DnD (LINK)
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March 25, 2019 • 53 mins
Teacher, educator, and researcher Paul Darvasi returns to the show to talk about using Grand Theft Auto, The Path, and Dungeons & Dragons to educate about social issues and so much more
Part of the Games + Education series
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March 20, 2019 • 42 mins
Renowned game design professor Scott Nicholson talks about his designs for educational escape rooms and more
Part 2 of a 2 part discussion with Professor Scott Nicholson
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March 11, 2019 • 38 mins
Renowned game design professor Scott Nicholson douses us with the wisdom he runs his game design program with
Educational escape rooms
How games are so effective as an information delivery system
Part 1 of a 2 part discussion with Professor Scott Nicholson
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March 4, 2019 • 46 mins
This episode starts a 7 episode series on Games + Education
Renowned thinker on how education through problem-solving, James Paul Gee, joins us to discuss his discoveries.
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February 10, 2019 • 3 mins
Hey everyone! Ches lost his voice. But some awesome human listeners stepped up last minute to help announce the games and education series, with their perspectives on what games have taught them.
The Games + Education features 7 episodes with guests with insight into all the ways that games are shaking up how we approach education. It starts March 4th - don't miss it!
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January 7, 2019 • 36 mins
Jakub Vambersky of Madfinger Games talks about the partnership between their game Shadogun: Legends and the charity War Child for their 2018 Armistice event.
This is episode 7 of the Games + Social Change series
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December 24, 2018 • 33 mins
Dan Machado of Smart Iguana Games returns to talk about what he learned from his first board game crowfunding campaign - and his new project, the board game DOCE!
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November 20, 2018 • 1 min
Tune in Nov 21th at 4:37pm for a live recording of an interview for +7 Intelligence!
Live on Twitch.tv/plus7intelligence
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November 18, 2018 • 1 min
Tune in Nov 18th (that's the day this episode is published!) at 6:07pm for a live recording of an interview for +7 Intelligence!
Live on Twitch.tv/plus7intelligence
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October 15, 2018 • 57 mins
The director of an upcoming documentary on how video games can help alleviate mental health issues, Emily Crawford, shares her experiences with games, mental health, and filmmaking
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October 8, 2018 • 49 mins
Carrie Ray-Hill reveals how they revolutionized education through iCivics
How a former Supreme Court Justice decided to change the world through video games
How games can be effectively incorporated into education
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September 24, 2018 • 47 mins
- Dr.Rachel Lawes talks about how her expertise in consumer psychology and her love of gaming overlap - We discuss how gamers often want their virtual worlds to resemble the real world in unexpected ways Links - +7 Intelligence Discord Server - Join an awesome community all about the power of games to influence our lives and the world around us. Come chat and play games with me and your fellow listeners - Mack Weldon - Use promo ...
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September 17, 2018 • 29 mins
- Pawel Miechowski of 11bit Studios comes on to talk about their impactful games This War of Mine and Frostpunk - He explains how gameplay is the language of games, and how to use it to cover challenging subjects - Their strategy for asking moral questions of players - How they made This War of Mine as close to reality as possible Links - +7 Intelligence Discord Server - Join an awesome community all about the power of games to i...
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September 10, 2018 • 47 mins
- Asi Burak, legendary creator of Peacemaker and the Chairman of Games for Change speaks about the huge potential of games to change the world - He explains how we wants his book Power Play: How Video Games Can Save the World (LINK) to change how people see video games - How games have been used to change people's hearts and minds about subway safety, have allowed old enemies to empathize, and will be diagnosed by doctors - His cur...
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September 3, 2018 • 44 mins
- Dr. James Pita shares how we creates games for security applications - How passion for games led to a career in emerging technology - How to turn even the most important and complex problems into a game you can win - James' solution have been used to secure airports, trade ports, and wildlife preservation. - This is Part 2 of our series on Games + Social Change Links - +7 Intelligence Discord Server - Join an awesome community ...
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August 31, 2018 • 1 min
The series on Games + Social Change rides back in on Sept 3rd!
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July 30, 2018 • 53 mins
- Dr. Steve Kuniak, mental health professional and founder of Experience Points - Dr. Kuniak shares his experience as a person looking to games to get through hard times, as well as a professional, helping other gamers - Problem-focused coping - what it means that gamers favor this approach to handling their challenges - Gamer motivation profile, BrainHex: LINK Links - +7 Intelligence Discord Server - Join an awesome community al...
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July 27, 2018 • 29 mins
- A board game that lets you be a corrupt politician - manipulating elections to get yourself elected again and again and again - Joshua Lafair, one of the creators of Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering Game, speaks about creating a game based on a particular method of voting manipulation - How to turn a serious topic that doesn't get enough attention into board game mechanics - What it's like to use a board game to push for a cause - Ho...
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