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Bryan Alexander

Peacekeeping the Game - 6 views

www.peacekeepingthegame.com

games

shared by Bryan Alexander on 28 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 28 Feb 12
     
    Open source board game on political conflict.
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  • Brett Boessen on 28 Feb 12
     
    How is it open-sourced? (If the answer is "read the site materials", I apologize in advance. ;)
  • Bryan Alexander on 28 Feb 12
     
    Read the site materials. :) Seriously, the rules, counters, and board are all printable there. Not an ambitious game.
  • Brett Boessen on 28 Feb 12
     
    Oh I see it now. I especially like the supporting materials -- goals, background article. Those wouldn't have to be seen by the players, but could really help the facilitator/teacher.
Bryan Alexander

Philip Sabin, "Wargaming in higher education: Contributions and challenges " - 1 views

ahh.sagepub.com/...1474022215577216.abstract

simulation gaming education

shared by Bryan Alexander on 20 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 20 Apr 15
     
    "Wargames, especially on historical conflicts, do not currently play much part in the booming academic use of simulation and gaming techniques. This is despite the fact that they offer rich vehicles for active learning and interactive exploration of conflict dynamics. Constraints of time, expertise and resources do make it challenging to employ wargames in academia, but a greater problem is the stigma which wargaming attracts due to its association with childish enthusiasts and its perceived deficiencies as a modelling technique. This article builds on my many years of teaching and research experience with wargames to show how playing and designing them can benefit students and scholars alike."
Todd Bryant

How a Civilization V mod makes corruption the least of FIFA's Problems - Kill Screen - ... - 1 views

killscreendaily.com/...orruption-least-fifas-problems

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Brett Boessen liked it
  • Todd Bryant on 04 Jun 15
     
    Civ V mod as Fifa critique. World Cup is used as a "wonder"
  • Bryan Alexander on 09 Jun 15
     
    Excellent. Very clever and funny. Flyvbjerg does some interesting work.
Todd Bryant

Iconic 20th century art is being turned into a series of experimental videogames - Kill... - 0 views

killscreendaily.com/...lissitzkys-revenge

art russia

shared by Todd Bryant on 09 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • Todd Bryant on 09 Apr 15
     
    When Russian artist El Lissitzky printed his 1920 Soviet propaganda poster "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge," he had no idea it would become iconic. It was its bold symbolism that did the trick. The Russian civil war was reduced to a potent display of shape and space. The Bolsheviks were represented by a violent-red triangle that had stabbed ...
  • Bryan Alexander on 09 Apr 15
     
    Fun idea. Can we play it with a keyboard?
Ed Webb

Google Develops a Facebook Rival - WSJ.com - 1 views

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google facebook casual social games gaming

shared by Ed Webb on 28 Jul 10 - Cached
  • A Facebook spokesman said the company wouldn't speculate about Google's initiative but said the company expected new social-networking efforts by others and "looks forward to seeing what others have to offer."
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 28 Jul 10
       
      Translation: "bring it!"
    • Bryan Alexander
      Bryan Alexander on 28 Jul 10
       
      Indeed. I note that Google is seeking gaming assistance in this quest.
  • Many users now rely on their friends on Facebook—not just Google—to discover content and products they can purchase on the Internet. And much of the content generated by users on Facebook is generally kept out of view of Google's search engine.
  • In an interview this week, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt declined to confirm the development of a social-networking service that would incorporate social games, rumored to be called "Google Me." When asked if Google's service might resemble Facebook's, Mr. Schmidt said "the world doesn't need a copy of the same thing."
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  • For social-game developers, a successful Google offering would mean they wouldn't be so heavily dependent on Facebook, where the vast majority of users access the games. Consumers' appetite for social games is booming— Zynga's "Farmville" game has more than 60 million active monthly users—and that is attracting bigger players looking to tap new sources of growth. On Tuesday, Walt Disney Co. acquired Playdom for $563.2 million plus up to $200 million more if performance targets are reached. And retailer GameStop Corp. agreed to buy online game distributor Kongregate Inc. for an undisclosed amount.
  • Game developers pay Facebook 30% of the earnings from virtual-good purchases in their games. Google already has an online payment mechanism called Checkout that, in theory, it could use to collect payments for social games on its platform.
Bryan Alexander

A Quaker plays first-person shooters - 1 views

www.newyorker.com/...100809on_audio_baker

gaming art

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  • Bryan Alexander on 19 Aug 10
     
    Audio with novelist Nicholson Baker, who describes learning about computer games and respecting their art. Check out which title he thinks is most novelistic. There's also a full article, but not online yet.
Ed Webb

Digital: Facebook, YouTube, Gaming Time Spent Grows - Advertising Age - Digital - 1 views

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use socialmedia email gaming US statistics USA

shared by Ed Webb on 03 Aug 10 - Cached
  • according to research by Nielsen Co. The time spent on social media accessed from PCs rose from 15.8% in June 2009 to 22.7% in June 2010, according to Nielsen, while online gaming gained more modestly to 10.2% of online time from 9.3% a year earlier. But that was enough to push gaming past e-mail, which fell to 8.3% of online time spent at the PC from 10.5% a year earlier.
  • separating social-media time from gaming time has become tougher, given that a growing portion of online gaming takes place via Facebook applications such as Zynga's Farmville, Nielsen analyst Dave Martin acknowledged.
  • . The shift of e-mail use from PCs to mobile devices accounts for some of the decline of time spent on e-mail at PCs
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  • online video time still only averaged an hour and 15 minutes per person per month, an amount of time many people spend with traditional TV on the morning of the first day of the month
  • Instant messaging also lost share of time at the PC, Mr. Martin said, which was likely a result of increased use of mobile texting in part.
Brett Boessen

Control freak: Will David Cage's 'Heavy Rain' videogame push our buttons? - Gaming, Lif... - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...-push-our-buttons-1902630.html

games article heavyrain auteurism

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  • "When I started crediting myself as writer and director, I saw that as a political act. This is not a game made by 20 people plus 12 marketing guys, trying to find an average of what everyone likes. I'm doing the work of an author and there is no compromise. It's really the story I want to tell."
    • Brett Boessen
      Brett Boessen on 25 Feb 10
       
      Of course he goes here -- if he wants games to be seen as art, they have to have "artists." Auteurism provides a stamp of legitimacy for the medium in his eyes.
Ed Webb

Random House Sets Up Videogame Team - WSJ.com - 2 views

online.wsj.com/...4089904575093562727862740.html

gaming games news story storytelling publishing

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  • Random House, eager to cash in on the lucrative videogame business, has set up an in-house team to create original stories for videogames and provide story advice for games in development. The book publisher, a unit of Germany's Bertelsmann AG, has started looking for a buyer for two original projects, one a fantasy adventure and the other a horror thriller. Each of the proposed games has a cast of characters, suggested stories, and an analysis of the type of gamer in mind.
  • Bryan Alexander on 02 Mar 10
     
    I wonder if Heavy Rain played a role in this.
Ed Webb

Art Games - 2 views

www.artificial.dk/...artgamesnetworks.htm

game games art gaming fun

shared by Ed Webb on 22 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 22 Apr 10
     
    That's a good intro list. Might be handy to show people new to (thinking about) gaming.
Bryan Alexander

Games, Maps and the Brain - 3 views

www.depauw.edu/...articles

research simulation

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  • Bryan Alexander on 30 Apr 10
     
    More from Depauw. Something's in the Greencastle water.
Ed Webb

Postings of a Troubled Mind - WSJ.com - 2 views

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gaming US USA politics

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  • At times, Mr. Loughner seemed to be reaching out to fellow gamers for help and advice, albeit in a disturbing way. Sometimes they offered it, such as giving him pointers about job hunting. At other times, his postings seemed so outrageous that the gamers mocked or ignored him. The online postings, written using pseudonyms, were shared with the Journal by a person who had access to them. Two fellow gamers who participated in the online forums say the author was the accused gunman, and some of the postings discuss incidents from Mr. Loughner's life that others have corroborated.
  • Ed Webb on 12 Jan 11
     
    The chat forums associated with games could be mines of information for the right research project. I hope they rarely become newsworthy in this way.
  • Bryan Alexander on 13 Jan 11
     
    Good point. Gaming discussion has grown into a wide field for all kinds of research. I'm waiting for "gaming made him do it" arguments to appear.
Ed Webb

Headteacher told primary school children World War Three had broken out | Mail Online - 1 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...orld-War-Three-broken-out.html

history war simulation ARG memory game UK education

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  • Bryan Alexander on 05 Feb 11
     
    Now *that* is teaching with impact!
Ed Webb

Lessons Learned in Playful Game Design - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 3 views

chronicle.com/...33876

game design education gamification

shared by Ed Webb on 08 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • The site reflected my commitment to designing the class assignments around collaborative mission-based tasks that would increase in difficulty level each week and reward multiple paths of completion. Each week I tried to think beyond discussion topics and create playful mechanics–the real challenge of harnessing gameplay, which no site can provide on its own–and some weeks it was hard to escape giving assignments that would never feel playful.
  • many of the students appreciated the greater sense of collaboration
  • Ian Bogost escalated his anti-gamification campaign with a Gamasutra article that explicitly mentioned how the rhetoric of gamification is drawing attention from educators to a trend that threatens “to replace real incentives with fictional ones,” among many other sins. The piece even inspired Darius Kazemi to build a Chrome extension that replaces “gamification” with “exploitationware.”
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  • From edutainment titles that amounted to repackaging of classroom drills to simulations that favor particular structures of reality, games as they stand are learning experiences we’ve started to understand but are still trying to harness in the classroom.
  • a class-based Alternate Reality Game
  • Bryan Alexander on 08 Jun 11
     
    Neat! I like the way she worked in anti-gamification.
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