Traci Lawson is a children's game designer and producer. A nine year veteran of the children's media industry, she has designed games for Sesame Street websites, and performed user playtesting research that has improved the interface and experience of several games. Recently, she published an iPhone game for kids, entitled Frogs and Fireflies. A second title is in development. She maintains a website and industry blog at http://www.tentoed.com
There are a lot of great educational games out there, but to quote Marc Prensky, they're like champagne in the ocean. There are so many bad educational games out there, and no great way for the really good ones to become well known, so they're hard to find. Many educational ...
Hi Juice, My point was that the game doesn't need a tutorial at all. The parts of the game that the tutorial helps you with are either intuitive, or could have been made more intuitive with better user interface. I don't think it can be written off simply by saying ...
Daniel, this is an interesting interview. I have to disagree with Hendersen though, that making a game educational automatically diverts you from the 'fun' path. He is correct in most cases, but I think we could all think of examples of educational games that are truly fun. Examples that come ...
Direct to download will never take over old-fashioned sales, because it generally requires both a credit card and internet connection. A good number of video game purchasers have neither. Same can be said for online retailers like Amazon. This is where GameStop wins big, because their store locations are in ...
