Game Design

Add Excitement to Your Training--And Increase Its Effectiveness!

Have you written a book or developed a training workshop? Thiagi can create games, simulations, and other experiential activities to enrich your product. Result: Your training reaches new heights of excitement and effectiveness.

Thiagi has designed interactive, experiential activities for several best-selling training products. He has worked with seven authors, creators of three survey instruments, and eight major corporations that provide training products and services.

How much will it cost? It depends on several factors. Thiagi's fees range from $100 to $10,000. Email him at thiagi@thiagi.com or give him a call at 812-332-1478 to find out what your costs will be.

Here's what Thiagi can do for you:

Provide his services at whatever level you want: Thiagi can design a 5-minute exercise on a specific topic or a week-long simulation to form the core of your training workshop.
Work from where you are now. Thiagi can help you plan an experiential workshop from scratch or add activities to accompany your book and to enrich your completed workshop.
Meet your specific needs. Thiagi can create games for technical training, management training, and sales training.
Work in a variety of formats. Thiagi literally wrote the book on 30 different types of interactive experiential learning. He creates training games, simulations, computer games, roleplays, card games, board games, large-group games, solitaire games, rapid games, reflective games--and a combination of formats to suit your needs.
Thiagi's games are not fluff. They are not meaningless icebreakers that have nothing to do what with you are teaching. They are relevant, criterion-based, and intellectually stimulating.
Thiagi's games go beyond fun. They engage participants in intriguing and challenging activities to explore concepts, master skills, and examine personal paradigms.
Thiagi works fast. His rapid instructional design approach is based on a personal collection of hundreds of games and templates. He can rapidly mix and match and create the best game for your needs.
Thiagi adds enormous value to your training product at a low cost. He can work with you through telephone, Internet, email, and fax. He can send you the finished product in the form of reproducible masters or as email attachments.
Thiagi's game fit your needs perfectly. With his Ph. D. in instructional systems and background in cognitive sciences, he knows which strategies to use to accomplish different types of performance goals.
Thiagi is an expert. He has designed hundreds of training games and activities that are used around the world. He writes a monthly online newsletter called Play for Performance. He has contributed definitive articles on gaming and simulation to major handbooks including those published by the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), and American Management Association (AMA). He has served as the president of the North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA) for three different terms.
Thiagi enjoys what he is doing. Much to the irritation of his accountant, Thiagi gets excited about interesting projects and gives more than he should.

Here's what clients and colleagues say about Thiagi:

"Quite simply, Thiagi is the most prolific and creative designer of games and simulations in the world." -- Glenn Parker, author of Cross-Functional Teams and Team Players and Teamwork

"Thiagi's games are always ingenious, easy to conduct, and open to several learning points." -- Mel Silberman, author of Active Training and 101 Ways to Make Training More Active

"When I want to create a learning environment or produce a thoughtful discussion, I turn to Thiagi's games." -- Steve Sugar, author of Games That Teach and Games That Teach Teams

"Thiagi's games provide powerful activities that are easily adapted to any learning environment." -- Dr. Darryl Sink, President, Darryl Sink & Associates

"There are two types of training-game designers: there is Thiagi and there is the rest of us." -- Andy Kimball, President, Qube Learning, LLC

"Thiagi is a master in creating accelerated learning with simulations and games." -- Boyd Watkins, President, Interel, Inc.