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Scot Osterweil

Game Designer

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Play is life

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Research Scientist - MIT

President/Creative Director - Learning Games Network

Games

An Otter Planet, Creative Consultant, 2023

Pip School, Lead Designer, 2023

The Calisto Project, Creative Director, 2020

Early Bird, Lead Designer, 2019

Xenos, Creative Director, 2014

Quandary, Lead Designer, 2013

Vanished, Lead Designer, 2011

Kids Survey Network, Lead Designer, 2010

Lure of the Labyrinth, Lead Designer, 2009

Caduceus, Lead Designer, 2008

iCue, Creative Director, 2008

InspireData, Co-Designer, 2006

Zoombinis’ Island Odyssey, Designer, 2002

Switchback, Designer, 2002

Zoombinis’ Mountain Rescue, Co-Designer, 2001

Yoiks!, Co-Designer, 1998

Zoombinis, Co-Designer, 1996

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Klopfer E., Haas, J, Osterweil S., & Rosenheck L. Resonant Games MIT Press, 2018

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Klopfer E. & Osterweil S.  The Boom and Bust and Boom of Educational Games, in Transactions on Edutainment IX, Maiga Chang (Ed.). Springer Verlag, 2013.

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Reid, S. Jennings, H., and Osterweil, S. It’s All in How You Play the Game: Increasing the Impact of Gameplay in Classrooms, Chapter 21 in Cases on Digital Game-Based Learning: Methods, Models, and Strategies, Youngkyun Baek and Nicola Whitton, IGI Global, 2013

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Osterweil, S. & Klopfer, E. Are Games All Child’s Play?, Chapter 7 in Digital Games and Learning, Sara de Freitas and Paul Maharg (Eds.) Continuum Press, 2011.

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Osterweil, S. & Le, L., Learning and Change—a View from the MIT Education Arcade, in International Journal of Cognitive Technology, Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2010

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Klopfer, E., Osterweil, S. & Salen, K. Moving Learning Games Forwardwww.educationarcade.org, 2009.

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Jenkins, H. Camper, B., Chisholm, A., Grigsby, N., Klopfer, E., Osterweil, S., Perry, J., Tan, P., Weise, M., and Teo, C., From Serious Games to Serious Gaming, Chapter 26 in Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects, Ute Ritterfeld, Michael Cody, Peter Vorderer (Eds.). Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2009.

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Osterweil, S., Yoiks!, in Hands On, volume 22, No.2, Fall 1999.

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Hancock, C., & Osterweil, S., Zoombinis & The Art of Mathematical Play, in Hands On, volume 19, No.1, Spring 1996.

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