🐴 日高町フィールドワーク：ゼミ生が「地域×ゲームデザイン」の可能性を切り拓く
York Game Lab（ヨークゼミ）では、「ゲームを通じて社会的課題を読み解き、クリエイティブに解決へアプローチする」というテーマのもと、教育・地域・文化を題材にしたプロジェクト型学習を行っています。…
Blog
ブログ
Playtests, trials, and notes from the lab. プレイテストや実証実験、研究の記録。
漢字遊戯
漢字遊戯：部首をあわせて感じを作っていくゲーム！
The Iceberg Model of Games and Education: Deep Learning Beyond the Surface
This video is a recording of my recent talk with Jonathan deHaan at DiGRA Japan 2025 (Summer Meet-up). The presentation is in Japanese, but there is an…
The History of Video Games
Single Semester classProfessor: James YorkMeiji University (fall only) / Sophia University (Spring and Fall)Office hours: By appointment (email me) Video…
KEI-GO! in the Classroom: Early Results from a Lesson at Moriya Elementary
Earlier this year, I was given the opportunity to conduct a lesson to teach a lesson at Moriya Elementary School (the school that my son goes to) and in…
Introduce Playfulness, Not Gamification ゲーミフィケーションではなく、「遊び心」を導入しましょう
Why superficial gamification falls short in classrooms — and how ludic pedagogy offers a deeper alternative. 教育の現場では、いまだに「ゲーミフィケーション」という言葉がバズワードのように使われています。本稿ではその問題点を指摘し、「遊び心（ludic）」を基盤とした教育の在り方を提案します。
Using the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies and SPACE to fend off AI-generated assignments
I’ve been teaching my “History of Video Games” class for the past 6 weeks now, and each week students are given a homework assignment which asks them to…
Creating a Local Food Card Game: Family Fun and Learning
I’ve been working on a game with my kids recently. There are several reasons for this. 🍲 The game The game idea was thought up during a car journey on a…
Recent Seminar Projects
English onomatopoeia @ Nihon Gakuen HS This is the English Onomatopoeia team from my seminar class. They completed their game prototype “Let’s…
From Conkers to Code: The Making of Bonkers 4 Conkers
Heads up: this is not super educational in the way that is generally understood in the “educational games” narrative. It is not designed to teach something,…
The History of Video Games: Public Event
As part of a class that I teach titled “The History of Video Games,” I have tasked students with a final project. They need to write an essay on a topic of…
Game Market 2024: A First-Time Exhibitor’s report
Last weekend, I had the opportunity to participate in Game Market 2024 as a first-time exhibitor. As a fledgling game designer and hopefully publisher, this…
Fake Corpses and Real Fun: Exploring Social Frames in Pervasive Games 偽の死体と本当の楽しさ：パーベイシブゲームにおける社会的フレームの探求
Why lying 'dead' on the floor of a university campus is the most rational thing to do — exploring Huizinga's magic circle and Goffman's social frames. リアル版『Among Us』を通して、ゲームのマジックサークルとゴフマンの社会的フレーム理論を考察します。
Integrating AI into the TBLT gaming framework
I’ve been working on integrating AI-generated feedback into the TBLT gaming framework recently and will outline how, and why I have been doing so in this…
Play & Learn 感想
Play & Learnイベントに、担当教員のヨークが5人のセミナー学生と一緒に参加しました。 York Game Labの初めてのイベントで、有意義な時間を過ごしました。…
New class: The History of Video Games
I’ve been tasked with teaching a new class in the fall semester and it has to be related to culture in some way. So, me being me, I decided to do it about…
Serious Play Conference
I’ll be talking at the Serious Play conference in Toronto next week! My slides are based on the Ludic Language Pedagogy book I co-wrote with Jonathan…
Teaching with Diplomacy — Week 3
This week, we spent around 30 minutes looking at conditionals in English. I created a worksheet to refresh students’ memories on how to use “if,”…
Teaching with Diplomacy — Week 1
I taught students about Diplomacy last week and we had the first official day today. It got off to a flying start. A SUPER good day for Germany — they got…
Teaching with Diplomacy — Week 2
At the start of the class today we spent some time thinking about useful language for playing this game, focusing on For Negotiating, the students provided…
KEI-GO!
Details How to play In this game, players have a “role” which is simply a number from 1 to 4. The number indicates seniority or social standing in general…
Meiji Museum 謎解きイベント
明治大学謎解きサークル「シャーロック」が開催しているイベントに学生といっしょに参加してきた。 謎はそこそこ難しかったけど、一緒に参加してくれた学生は早く解けた。 英語、色、数字、など、いろいろな要素があって謎の種類は豊富だった。 LINEを使った謎解き…
📰 April 2024 Games News
🆕 On the Shelves Princess Peach Showtime for Switch is a fun, breezy time at the theater – Polygon “Like Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Princess Peach:…