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MIT TechTV - Part 2 of 3-Games As An Aesthetic Form - Frank Lantz (NYU Game Center) - 3 views

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Lantz, designer of Drop7 and head of the NYU Game Center, which has a new game design MFA, talks about aesthetic characteristics of games in this second part of his three-part talk at MIT (part 1 lays out his thinking about aesthetics and art in general, and part 3 is the QnA). I especially like his provocations that "all games are digital" and "games created computers", both of which have to do with his definition of games as "the aesthetics of interactive systems."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Lantz, designer of Drop7 and head of the NYU Game Center, which has a new game design MFA, talks about aesthetic characteristics of games in this second part of his three-part talk at MIT (part 1 lays out his thinking about aesthetics and art in general, and part 3 is the QnA). I especially like his provocations that "all games are digital" and "games created computers", both of which have to do with his definition of games as "the aesthetics of interactive systems."</div>

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Symon browser game - 4 views

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shared by Todd Bryant on 04 Aug 11 - No Cached

Todd Bryant on 04 Aug 11

Puzzle game, inside a person's head/dreams who is paralyzed. Review is here http://gambit.mit.edu/updates/2011/08/award-winning_game_explores_pu.php

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Puzzle game, inside a person's head/dreams who is paralyzed. Review is here <a href="http://gambit.mit.edu/updates/2011/08/award-winning_game_explores_pu.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://gambit.mit.edu/updates/2011/08/award-winning_game_explores_pu.php</a></div>

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Gaming relativistic effects - 2 views

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pedagogy simulation game

shared by Bryan Alexander on 09 Nov 12 - No Cached

Bryan Alexander on 09 Nov 12

Teaches player some aspects of traveling close to the speed of life.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Teaches player some aspects of traveling close to the speed of life.</div>

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Top News - Can gaming change education? - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 15 Dec 09 - Cached

"Moving Learning Games Forward: Obstacles, Opportunities, and Openness," by Eric Klopfer, Scot Osterweil, and Katie Salen of the Education Arcade, an MIT research division that explores games that promote learning through play, explains why educational games have seen an increase in popularity: mainly owing to the advances in consumer games.
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A report from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, "Game Changer: Investing in digital play to advance children's learning and health," claims that on an average day, children as young as eight spend as many hours engaged in media activity as they spend in school. Seventy-five percent of American children play computer and video games, it says.
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