Professor Game Podcast

Erik is a researcher and developer of Learning Solutions. He's the founder of Play Learn Develop and also a vegetarian. His research and products combine the use of Human Behaviour, tabletop games and Artificial Intelligence/Data Science. Over the past two years, he has worked with the University of Economics Krakow, in Poland, and with Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in Ireland. Currently, he's work...

Bernardo started as a web designer back in 1998. He worked in JWT (marketing agency) for a year and afterward started his journey in the training world working at EduMac as an Adobe Certified Instructor. In 2008 he started working at the American School Foundation. Bernardo has been working as a freelancer forever and founded his company in 2011. In 2011 he was introduced by a student to the conce...

Special episode alert! This week we are asking for your help Engagers!  We have a shorter episode explaining how you can engage with Professor Game to activate the special powers (yes, oldie but goodie Wonder Twin Powers-like). All you have to do is go to professorgame.com/survey21, invest less than 5 minutes answering some questions and that's it! You can invest a little more and give us some mor...

Miguel Sicart is an Associate Professor at the IT University, where he teaches play design. He is the author of The Ethics of Computer Games (The MIT Press, 2009), Beyond Choices (The MIT Press, 2013), and Play Matters (The MIT Press, 2014). His work combines the philosophy of technology, game studies, and design theory to try to make sense of play. His most recent research focuses on the nature o...

Mr. Powley is the Dual Enrollment American History Teacher at HCS Early College High School in Coastal South Carolina where he lives with his wife Amanda and three young boys. In 2013, he began transforming his classroom with game-inspired design.  He has been a presenter at the Future of Ed Tech Conference as well as numerous state and local events. Mr. Powley is currently writing a blog at class...

Dr. Frida Polli is an award-winning Harvard and MIT neuroscientist turned CEO. Named one of Inc.'s Top 100 Female Founders in 2018 and one of Entrepreneur's Top 100 Powerful Women in 2020, Dr. Polli's mission is to help everyone realize their true potential at work by removing bias from the talent matching process and improving job fit. She is the CEO and co-founder of pymetrics, a company leverag...

Roman Rackwitz is the founder of Engaginglab GmbH, Europe's first Gamification Agency in 2009. Winner of the first international Gamification Challenge, done by Mashable and SETI in 2011. He teaches Gamification for HR and Marketing at Universities in Germany and Switzerland. With his channels like podcasts, Youtube he shares his experience and knowledge with those who want it. You can find him an...

Kurt is a sought-after speaker and recognized leader in human motivation and behavior change. For over 20 years, Kurt has worked with global companies to apply behavioral science principles to drive change in their organizations. He is founder and president of The Lantern Group, a communication and behavioral design agency.  He also is the co-founder, with Tim Houlihan, of the Behavioral Grooves p...

Jimmy Chebat, an enterprising business pioneer, has developed a digital initiative anticipated to address the paradigm shifts currently plaguing the workforce due in part to the workplace culture identity crisis and the ever-increasing rate of remote workers. His portfolio of past business ventures emphasizes his ability to identify challenges facing personnel management, generating innovative sol...

Robert A. Belle is a transformational speaker, author and ACCA Qualified Accountant. He helps people who feel stuck in their career or life journey to break away from the "norm" and find new paths that reveal their true value. With his new book Blow The lid Off! He is on a global mission to help individuals who feel inferior and have given up on their dreams to think freely, create unapologeticall...

Scott Kim is cofounder of the Game Thinking Academy and an educational game designer. Games he's worked on include Tetris, Bejeweled, Rush Hour, and monthly puzzles for Discover magazine. He has degrees in music, computer science and graphic design from Stanford University, and has a deep background in recreational mathematics.

This is a special episode! We will be discussing the Playful Creative Summit with Alyea Sandovar and David Chislett, find more information about them on their episodes (166 and 162).

Laura Marie Edinger-Schons is Professor of Sustainable Business at the University of Mannheim. In her research, she focuses on the question of how organizations (from for-profit to non-profit) can contribute to sustainable development as defined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Specific topics which she is interested in are Employee Engagement in Sustainability, Social Entre/In...

Eric Holden is an Atlanta artist, comedian, and co-host of The Goblin's Corner, a tabletop and storytelling podcast on all your favorite podcasting platforms. Eric has been performing since he was old enough to speak and has carried this into every creative format, from various improv and live acts, to sketch comedy and gaming. With 30 plus years of running various table top games, he has extensiv...

This is a different episode! No guest this time, I do an analysis of the game Fortnite and some potential applications outside of the entertainment industry (i.e. gamification and game-based solutions). We go through some of the strategies used by this game and think of them divided within the RAMP framework that Andrzej Marczewski talks about. I pose a final challenge! Play one of the games you e...

Dave Eng is an intellectual and creative educator, designer, and researcher who combines games, theory, and technology. Dave has played games for most of his life. As a result, he studies game design and teaches others how to use games for education and learning. Dave hosts the podcast Experience Points and consults at University XP on games-based learning. He also leads the Games-Based Learning A...

Tiago Sizenando is a senior gamification consultant with projects in the United States, Europe and Brazil, in companies like Arcelor Mittal, Banco do Brasil, Forus group, and many startups. An engineer by training, he worked with Siemens for 6 years, co-founded a health promotion startup, and currently is Gamification Specialist at Gamiphy and Product Manager at Octalysis Prime. Tiago is a certifi...

Jeremy Royster is a transformative curriculum author with extensive experience intrinsically motivating students through personalized instruction.  He has proven expertise amplifying engagement as an instructional technology professor through F.A.I.L. University, his gamified platform to deliver "Fearless Adventures In Learning" to instructors.  Certified in Technology Education (PK-12) and Educat...

Founder of Inc Best Workplaces Company, monthly contributor to Forbes.com & regular speaker at EdTech conferences. Stephen creates games to educate and activate audiences. Since launching The Game Agency 13 years ago and The Training Arcade 4 years ago, Stephen has developed award-winning games for new-employee on-boarding, sales and product training, leadership development, safety, security, comp...

Arkadiusz Siechowicz is one the founders of Gamehill - Gamified Learning Platforms. With his team they are winners of Outstanding Gamification Award as well as Best international implementation of Gamified learning solution form London's LTA. For the last 7 years they have gathered vast experience in corporate and university learning.  Their most recent addition to the platform is an AI based Adap...

Ambikesh is the Co-Founder of a consulting firm based out of India called M.A.D. Methods. He is a serial entrepreneur having founded organizations in services and product spaces. Having worked with companies in the US and in many APAC countries, Ambikesh has a treasure of experience in User Experience and Client Management. In recent years Ambikesh has been involved in the product and service desi...

Shawn Livermore is the author of the Amazon best-selling business non-fiction book, Average Joe: Be the Silicon Valley Tech Genius. The book teaches anyone how to think, speak, and create like some of the brightest tech founders in the world. It dispels the myth of the tech genius, then, in an unexpected and very satisfying twist, it reveals how to become the myth yourself. Shawn runs Product Perf...

Nadia Benedetti is an Advanced Trainer in playful learning, LEGO® SERIOUSPLAY® Facilitator, and Game Thinking Coach, her expertise is helping teams to face complexity by innovating. For 18 years, she was International Manager at Hachette Publishing and LEGO Education, facing the challenges of smart working and multicultural environments. She had been practicing the importance of playful learning t...

Julian Kea is a bilingual serious games facilitator and team coach based in Berlin. Though activating learning environments with minds-on workshop methods he enables teams to exchange ideas authentically, promote mutual understanding and strengthen their cooperation. These methods include Training from the BACK of the Room, Thiagi's Interactive Training and Teaching Strategies, Agile Classrooms, O...

Alyea Sandovar, Ph. D. is a game and play consultant. She works with trainers, consultants and entrepreneurs to add more fun and deepen engagement through gamification. She has a whole slew of degrees: A Ph. D. in Game Production, a Masters degree in Psychology, a Masters degree in Human Organizational Systems, and a Bachelor's is in Public Relations and Communication. She has worked with academic...