George Kalmpourtzis

Are games the solution to any educational challenge?

The first question that any educational game designer should ask is not whether or not games are efficient learning tools (yes, they are!) but how they are going to accomplish their learning objectives. Without doubt the interest of educators and…Read more
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Lecture at Hong Kong’s City University

I was recently invited to perform a lecture for the students of CityU’s School of Media. It was an amazing experience and I want to thank the Dean, Richard Allen, and the faculty for their warm hospitality! The subject of…Read more
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Setting up an efficient UX Design Process for an audio recording app

Setting up efficient UX processes is a great discussion that gets more and more attention in both industry and academia. The main reason for this shift of interest is the common understanding that efficient and well thought UX design processes…Read more
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ActivePlay UX Design

ActivePlay is an interactive Cinema & Television ecosystem, presenting interactive media creators with the opportunity of diffusing and monetizing their creations and audiences with innovative tastes the opportunity to be part of the interactive cinema and TV sensation. ActivePlay consists…Read more
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Kiss or Miss – A User Experience Perspective

Kiss or Miss is a prototype, beta version of the Active Play platform viewer client. For more information on Active Play, please check: here. Kiss or Miss was designed for the iPad with provision of being developed also for Android…Read more
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User Personas

Creating and working on user personas is a topic of great discussion in the world of UX. From one side, personas are created but not really used in order to critically assess one’s product, leading to various later problems, related…Read more
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Game Design Education Workshops

During the last month, I was asked to organize and facilitate some game design workshops for educators in the area of Thessaloniki. The workshops focused on the area of educational games and their impact on learning and student engagement in…Read more
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The Math Mathews Games

I am a great fan of the Math Mathews games designed by my friends in Kiupe. Kiupe is an education game studio, located in the heart of Lyon, consisting of a really powerful team of few but highly skilled and…Read more
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Sugar Roll: A platformer for the iPhone

Enter an amazing adventure as you try to escape from Sugar Island, a legendary realm ruled by cunning animals. Try to avoid being captured as you face cute but vicious monkeys, oddly agile hedgehogs, juggling tigers, live cannons, creepy crows,…Read more
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An introduction to SCORM

My friend and colleague Romain Gibert recently posted an interesting article on his blog: [here] There are no technical standards when it comes to format and compatibility with elearning. SCORM has been the de-facto model for interoperability and compatibility among…Read more
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