Play to Learn

9 Steps to Learning Game Design Success


Are you a trainer or eLearning designer who wants to use games to engage your learners? While game-based learning has the potential to motivate and excite, learning games can fall flat if not designed properly. To be successful, you need a solid strategy that carefully connects business goals to learning objectives and game mechanics.

In this webinar, Sharon Boller and Dr. Karl Kapp share tips and best practices from their new book, “Play to Learn: Everything You Need to Know About Designing Effective Learning Games.” They introduce nine steps to effective learning game design and take a detailed look at the three most critical and overlooked steps in the process.

After attending this Play to Learn Webinar, you’ll be able to:


Identify nine steps to effective learning game design.


Focus on the three most crucial and overlooked learning game design steps.


Apply game design best practices and avoid common pitfalls to using games as learning tools.

About Bottom-Line Performance


Since 1995, BLP has helped organizations create the right learning solution. Whether you have a complex problem to solve, product to launch, or process to implement, our in-house team partners with you every step of the way to design for your desired outcome and develop the right mix of tools: web and mobile apps, eLearning, serious games and gamification, video, and highly interactive instructor-led training to name a few. The end result? Award-winning solutions that solve problems, inspire people to act, and help people learn.

We are also the creators of Knowledge Guru®, a training reinforcement platform that uses adaptive learning, game-based learning, and microlearning to increase knowledge retention and improve performance.

Great instructional design is at the heart of what we do.