S3E7: Sam Liberty＜＞ Game Design on the Global Stage

Roll On Episode 7!

We’re joined by Sam Liberty

Sam is a consultant in Applied Game Design and an expert in gamification design for health. Clients include: Click Therapeutics, UNICEF, the International Red Cross, and the World Bank. Sam teaches Game Design at Northeastern University in Boston, and is the former Lead Game Designer at Sidekick Health.

In this episode, we explore:

• Games are the secret ingredient in the behaviour change needed to influence positive health activities, positive lifestyle changes.

• Games are cultural and contextually relative. And thinking of global health, co-design must be integrated into serious game design for regional and local populations' cultural, linguistic, contextual and digital accessibility needs.

• A key importance is game design; understanding the population you're designing a game for, and the behaviour you’re aiming to create. Because pretty games and fun games, don’t necessarily result in behaviour changes or any positive changes in health.