Gamification and Games

  • Analog Board Games vs Digital Games, best Programming Games for Kids

    Analog Board Games vs Digital Games: Which Programming Games for Kids are More Beneficial?

    If you time-travelled to the 90s and asked someone to show you their favourite game, they would likely bring out a board game. On the other hand, if you asked someone the same thing today, they would probably show you...

  • how to design good player choices, tips from potato pirates game

    How to design good player choice in games?

    When we first started designing our new cybersecurity games, Potato Pirates: Enter the Spudnet, a question often popped out every now and then: Are board games like Snakes and Ladders considered a game? Half of our team feels that a game...

  • Potato King is the best companion to learn coding with games

    5 Reasons To Be Potato King's BFF

    Have you ever wondered what it'd be like to be best buddies with the King of Pirates? Well, Potato King VII here would like to be your friend, too - so, on his behalf to all potential new friendships out...

  • How To Teach Programming With Potato Pirates coding Card Games for kids & adults

    How To Teach Programming With This Card Game

    The Genesis The only reason we came up with the idea of creating a table top card game that teaches programming concepts is solely due to our personal experience. In our freshman year in university, everyone had to take an introduction to...

  • Potato Pirates games are funded on kickstarter in 10 hours

    Is It Possible To Teach Computer Science Effectively Without Any Computers?

    You may have never used the words “potatoes”, “programming” and “piracy” in the same sentence (let alone the term "pirate card games"), but that's about to change.  Remember the times before iPhones and iPads? When we would gather with friends...