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Bobby Lockhart is an educational game designer and silly guy. The creator of CodeMancer, a super fun fantasy game that teaches kids the magic of coding wants parents & kids to know that we are living in a "program or be programmed world". Click here to visit Bobby's website - https://bobbylox.com/blog/ Click here to visit our website - www.readingwithyourkids.com
Bobby Lockhart is an award-winning designer of educational games. He has designed and developed games based on popular Intellectual Properties like Jurassic World and Batman, and has created games for institutions like the Notebaert Nature Museum and the Anti-Cruelty Society. His games have been shown at the Bit Bash festival, Alt.Ctrl at GDC, and the Games•Learning•Society conference. He is an expert blogger of game design on gamasutra.com, and has given talks at Play*Make*Learn, M-Dev, and the Game Developers’ Conference.
On today’s show, the guys welcome back Important Little Games designer Bobby Lockhart about a bevy of gaming in education topics. There’s some banter between the guys and more. Up next on the EduTechGuys. http://CU-Portland.edu/letsconquer https://www.rev.com/blog/edutechguys MUSIC: www.purple-planet.com
Another mainstay of the Chicago independent gaming scene, Bobby Lockhart is on this week to discuss both his interactive arcade game Hi-5 Heroes and his educational coding game Codemancer. Di Billick also returns to deconstruct a scene from the classic film Swingers, plus Bill gives a thorough breakdown of MTG Arena!
On today’s show, the guys talk with Bobby LockHart of Important Little Games about his new educational coding game ‘CodeMancer' and its use in formal education. A special EAST “CONFERENCE” update and more, next on the EduTechGuys.