Category Archives: Educational

One of the important discussion we had that I remembered last night dealt with the “limits of gamification”. In the discussion of gaming in context of “leveling up”, “+1′s”, trophys, etc. there was a discussion about how long you can … Continue reading →

A very interesting hour and half with the author of The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games and more recently Unschooling Rules This was the first in what is hoped to be a series of wargaming related speakers. Mr. … Continue reading →

The NUWC Strategy and Innovation Gaming Group (SIGG – we had to have a name, an acronym and an internal Sharepoint has been through its first “S curve” – we staret with 5 members, ramped up to about 20-odd and … Continue reading →

Our strategy and innovation gameing group has met a dozen or so times and played 4 different game to this point. What have we gotten out of this expenditure of about 40 hours each? One of the most important is … Continue reading →

Firmer Ground Suggests that the U.S. Army is getting better at simulating COIN in its efforts to train soldiers for COIN. Its a good article, but one which when one looks critically at what the Army is doing has a … Continue reading →