Professor Game Podcast

Charlotte Cheng is the Senior Education Manager at CodeCombat. With over 20 years of curriculum design experience, she has developed curriculum content for CodeCombat, Wonder Workshop, the Walt Disney Company, LeapFrog, and several EdTech startups. Her expertise is creating effective and engaging content for kids at the intersection of education, media, and technology As part of her work at CodeCo...

Chris Hood is a digital strategist and technology entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in online entertainment and marketing for TV, Film, Music, and Video Games. As the Head of Business Innovation and Strategy for Google, Chris engages with some of the top companies in the world to develop digital transformation strategies that grow business value. At Google, He also hosts the weekly bus...

Tricia Underwood is a joy-centered Executive Functioning Specialist who helps students and adults with ADHD and ADHD-like symptoms learn systems, habits, and strategies to create greater success on their unique terms. After graduating from college with a B.A. in Literature and a couple of years trying to work in an office, Tricia pursued a master's in teaching secondary Language Arts from Tufts Un...

Andrew is the Co-Founder and CEO of G13R, the developers of GenMove, BALLN and MyKicks. GenMove, the company's flagship product uses AI to create a gamified exercise experience for Gen Alpha / Z using motion tracking to create augmented reality motion games. GenMove was launched into the market in November 2022, in collaboration with the World Health organization with the aim of getting more child...

Devoted video gamer with 30+ years experience and started playing on ZX Spectrum. Worked 10 years as a telecommunication and software engineer before making a pivot to game development and education. Worked at CheckiO and created a ton of coding mini-games and puzzles for programmers. For the last 7 years, we have been working at CodeCombat in different roles from level designer to game developer...

What started off as playing games with some coworkers to pass the lunch hour has spun into so much more. Adam started playing The Settlers of Catan with about 4 or 5 coworkers from his division. Word got out that games were being played and within a few months, the group had grown to about 10 people. More games were introduced to the group, and more members joined. These new players came from othe...

Valeria Arellano has a degree in Education, a Master's in Family Studies and a Master's in Economics and Business. She was associate director of Financial Education at BBVA in Mexico. And she is currently the founder of AfortunadaMente where she creates financial education tools and strategies such as the AfortunadaMente board game with which she has reached more than 50,000 families in Mexico and...

As we wrap up 2022 and dive right into 2023 we made this quick episode to look back and be thankful, and look forward and be excited!

On this episode we bring Yu-kai Chou back! At the time of the recording, my newborn daughter wasn't still around, so you might hear a reference here and there about me saying "when I become a parent" or similar. Because this episode is all about what we can learn and apply from gamification with our own kids. Yu-kai's perspective is that of a dad of two twin girls, and of course that of an interna...

Lincoln Stoller, Ph. D., CHt, CCPCPr From a family of artists and architects he became a scientist, finding inspiration in a succession of extraordinary mentors. A Caribbean fisherman and prophet, a tribal elder in the jungles of Panama, one physicist who invented quantum mechanics, another who invented the laser, and a dirt-bag mountaineer, to name a few. He spent a decade climbing mountains and...

Alexander Vilinskyy. Right now Co-Founder at CommitClub.co, Head of Design at Decipad, running Super Clear design studio in London. ex-designer at Spark, Grammarly, Documents (iOS) and other productivity startups.

Geoffrey Golden is a narrative designer and game writer. Past clients include Capcom, Disney, Square Enix, Ubisoft, and indie studios around the world. He's written interactive stories and games in many mediums, from consoles to comic books. Adventure Snack, his email newsletter RPG, has been featured by IndieCade, Narrascope, HyperRPG, and Substack. Geoffrey is based in Los Angeles and has a grow...

Nisha Lehmann is a mobile developer by day. By night, she is a staunch advocate for better mental health and a firm believer that the answer to better mental health lies in advancements in gaming and games that are specifically tailored to mental health issues.

Ron is the founder and CEO of Kidas, a company that creates an AI-based solution that helps parents to protect their kids from bullying, scams, and online predators in more than 200 online multiplayer games like Fortnite, Roblox, and Call of duty. Ron holds an MSc in information system engineering and machine learning from the Technion, Israel Institue of technology, an MBA from the Wharton school...

Well it seems that after the anniversary episode other special things were yet to happen. I'll tell you about it in this uber short episode.

Well, so this year we're doing something I've been thinking about for a while, it's a mini Choose-Your-Own-Adventure created to help you on your journey! The audio of the episode is brief, because besides being super excited and celebrating that we've been together for 5 years (wow that sounds like a lot), the main focus of this episode is how we bring even more value to you. So there is indeed a...

Born of steel, fire and black wind, J.V. Hilliard was raised as a highlander in the foothills of a once-great mountain chain on the confluence of the three mighty rivers that forged his realm's wealth and power for generations. His father, a peasant twerg, toiled away in industries of honest labor and instilled in him a work ethic that would shape his destiny. His mother, a local healer, cared for...

Michaell Magrutsche, Austrian/Californian multidisciplinary artist, speaker, educator and author. He works on raising awareness of our limitless human potential and its wisdom. He is an advocate for helping understand neurodiversity like his dyslexia and dysgraphia.

Gianni Minetti, 35, is originally from Tuscany (a region in Italy) but has lived in Milan for work for years. Since childhood, he has been a big fan of video games, especially role-playing games (Final Fantasy saga, Assassin's Creed saga, Kingdom's Heart saga to give a few examples). He has always been curious and willing to study and learn new things. He has been fortunate enough to bring these t...

Dr. Erin Baker is a self-leadership coach, business strategist, social psychologist, Internal Family Systems practitioner, and author of Joy-Full AF: The Essential Business Strategy We're Afraid to Put First. They are on a mission to help heart-centered entrepreneurs and small business owners create prosperous, difference-making, joy-full AF businesses and lives that light them up. Erin holds a Ph...

Edward Sturm made the first play-2-earn game in crypto with battling, leveling, a marketplace, and hundreds of moves and creatures. His newest startup, Commit Club, uses loss aversion, social pressure, earning, and gamification to incentivize daily challenges and habits in a trackable and decentralized way.

Stefaan van Hooydonk is the founder of the Global Curiosity Institute and author of the bestselling book: The Workplace Curiosity Manifesto. After working initially in investment consulting and setting up executive education at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in China, Van Hooydonk held executive roles as Chief Learning Officer in fortune 200 companies (Nokia, Royal Philips,...

A very special episode for me personally, but no spoilers here! Well maybe if you see this on professorgame.com the picture might give us away...

Dustin has experience working in the field of education in various capacities, including consulting, research, and running and hosting tutoring programs. He is now the owner of Board Gaming with Education's brick-and-mortar store "BGE's Tabletop." When Dustin was in the classroom he was always looking for ways to create a more engaging classroom to develop a strong classroom culture and strengthen...

Fabian is a Gamification Digital Enablement manager and as well as sits on the Gamfication steerco at First National Bank South Africa with years of experience in delivering Gamification projects across learning, sales performance and across the entire First Rand Group. He believes that it is seldom that an individual finds their passion and their calling in life and believes that gamification is...