The Making Of

User Testing Miner Madness at a STEM event at KCAD

Teaching Code Theory to Egyptian youth

Gamepact is a company in Egypt that does training in corporations using behavioral psychology and game design techniques to gamify learning.  Gampact started using Miner Madness and Fun Funky Functions, created by my KCAD students, to train the youth of Egypt in Code Theory. This youth training experience will expand throughout the Middle East as a part of the Arab Revolution in Coding.

Teaching Code Theory to Tuscarora Nation youth 

In 2018 the Miner Madness Dig Into Code Theory game won The most Meaningful Student Created Game. I gave this game to  Concordia University, and University of Buffalo student, Waylon Wilson. He brought it back to his community cultural center to help kids from the Tuscarora Nation learn code theory.

Going to Mto wa Mbu in Tanzania to teach Code Theory with Dr. Jenny Olson, Barry Carr, Owen VanderWeele, Grace Michael, Jesse Sanderson, Jason Burnham, Lee Sullivan, Erik Goodman. As a part of Michigan State University Education Abroad Program



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User Testing Reports

Miner Madness was made in collaboration with Kentwood Public Schools who user tested our game throughout the concept and development phases. Their ideas and influence helped to make the game more fun, engaging and connect with the students. Find out how these user experience and play tests went in these EPIC Project reports.