I had the good fortune of having a gentleman simply lurk off to the side of my Friday Gnome Wars game at Historicon this past July. Despite repeated offerings to grab him a unit, he simply enjoyed watching the chaos.
That gentleman was Brad Burenheide, Associate Professor at Kansas State University and the co-creator of the K-State Game Lab. The Game Lab is a creation out of the College of Education, a research and play organization that allows students, faculty, staff and members of the community to play a variety of games to look at their potential impact in learning and education. A variety of card, board, role-playing, and miniature games are played with the purpose using them in ways to augment teaching, and learning in general.
It also helps that they can have a blast in doing so... which really is the underlying reason for the project in general.
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