Scott DeJong
Designing a Disinformation Game: Similar mechanics and approaches
What happens if we look at the wild world of disinformation as play. There are more similarities than you might think. When we evoke the...
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Scott DeJong
Oct 285 min read
A Rapid Summary of Disinformation Games
You’ve got an idea, you understand your topic, but do we have to make something new? What kinds of disinformation games already exist?...
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Scott DeJong
Oct 159 min read
Making a Disinformation Game - The Basics
You want to make a game that teaches people about false information? Let’s start with the basics. This is part one of a series of posts.
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Scott DeJong
Sep 164 min read
What is up with Fake News Games? New Directions, Old Approaches
Do media literacy games work? What are the challenges we have going on in this space?
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Scott DeJong
Sep 11, 20234 min read
Does Disinformation Weaponize Play???
I’m contributing to a book! Specifically, I am sharing my theoretical (and some empirical) work on how we can see disinformation through...
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Scott DeJong
Aug 28, 20232 min read
Upping the Game in Educational Games: Talk at the Canadian Game Studies Association
How do we design good educational games? Dr. Ryan Scheiding and I talked about it at CGSA this year.
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Scott DeJong
Jul 31, 20233 min read
Playing Around: Actors in Escape Rooms?
Blending live action role play with escape rooms led to the use of multiple characters as tools for facilitation, reflection, and engagement
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Scott DeJong
Jul 17, 20235 min read
Intergenerational Design... A Myth?
How can we make an intergenerational game? This post breaks down the term and how I positioned it for design.
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Scott DeJong
Jul 10, 20234 min read
Games as Subversive Teaching Tool
How can games be subservice learning spaces rather than top-down instruction?
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Scott DeJong
Jul 3, 20234 min read
Quick Review - The Play Theory of Mass Communication by William Stephenson (1967)
Play has been thought of as part of mass communication since 1967. Time to read, and apply it to my work.
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Scott DeJong
Jul 3, 20234 min read
So...Why an Escape Room?
It is time I explain the wacky, but wonderful, idea of escape rooms as educational tools.
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Scott DeJong
Jun 26, 20234 min read
Scrap Paper, Chalk, and Restless Nights
The creative process takes time and reflexivity. This post goes through the starting moments of making an escape room.
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Scott DeJong
Jun 23, 20232 min read
Running A Workshop on Serious Escape Game Design
In 2020 I went to Baltimore to share my research on Escape Rooms. The method I used here has been repeated in my work still today.
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Scott DeJong
Jun 19, 20233 min read
Content Towards Creation
How can we position filter bubbles and echo chambers into a game? What are the next steps?
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Scott DeJong
Jun 16, 20236 min read
Bad Game Arcade 2023
The following is a summation and reflections from the Bad Game Arcade 2023 What makes games special? Throughout the week of the 2023 Bad...
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Scott DeJong
Jun 16, 20233 min read
Lizards and Lies Game Launch!!!
Lizards and Lies is out. Here is a quick summary, but there is so much cool stuff happening around the game!
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Scott DeJong
Jun 16, 20233 min read
Gaming the Disinformation War: Design Processes and Thoughts
How do we game disinformation?
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Scott DeJong
Jun 16, 20232 min read
Fake News Games? Data, Research, and Report
I studied the state of Fake News Games and here are some of the findings.
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Scott DeJong
Jun 16, 20231 min read
Working Class Stereotypes in Among Us
I wrote a piece on class stereotypes in the video game Among Us. Check it out.
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Scott DeJong
Jun 16, 20234 min read
Educational Games?
So many buzzwords for educational games but how do we positively think about their design?
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