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Ed Webb

With video games, public diplomacy by mobile phone - SmartPlanet - 0 views

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  • MetroStar Systems, a 75-employee tech start-up contracted by the State Department to bring a better understanding of the United States to the countries with which it has less-than-amicable relations. The company plans to do so with X-Life Games, an initiative that effectively wraps a U.S. history lesson inside a downloadable video game for a mobile phone.
  • The products of this initiative — so far, “Driven,” a car-racing trivia game, and “Babangar Blues,” a music-based role-playing game — are intended to “demystify” the U.S. to foreign audiences, starting with the Middle East.
  • Ironically, the trivia very much resembles the test administered to new citizens. I asked Manouchehri if it was really fair to expect an Iranian to know who Patrick Henry was. “The hope is that they’ll look them up,” he said.
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  • the State Department gathers and receives behavioral data that helps it track “macro behavioral trends,” particularly among the Generation Y demographic MetroStar is targeting, born between 1981 and 2000.
  • Manouchehri is looking at deploying his mobile games in Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates, as well as in nations with more mature telecom networks, such as Egypt, Indonesia and Lebanon.
Bryan Alexander

Apple blocks simulation game from Apps Store - 12 views

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shared by Bryan Alexander on 09 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 09 Jan 13
     
    Should colleges create simulation games as iOS apps, if this kind of blockage can happen?
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  • Brett Boessen on 10 Jan 13
     
    Well there's always Android - I really like my Nexus 7 a lot; take it everywhere. And I've found downloading bits directly from the web for Android to be not too bothersome (the Humble Bundle folks have a workable system going).
  • Bryan Alexander on 10 Jan 13
     
    Is the Play store more open?
  • Brett Boessen on 10 Jan 13
     
    I thought it was, though I can't find any particular article attesting to that fact (maybe the respective Wikipedia pages would give a clue). But I also thought that it was not possible to install an app on an iOS device without a jailbroken phone - on Android if you have the .pks or whatever-type file on the web somewhere, you can install it, even on the standard version of Android.
  • Bryan Alexander on 11 Jan 13
     
    Sounds like a potential Play/Android advantage. Then there's the Web.
  • Brett Boessen on 11 Jan 13
     
    Yes, and especially since tablets are becoming more common, tools formatted for the web don't have to be squished onto a smartphone screen as much as they once might have been.
  • Bryan Alexander on 14 Jan 13
     
    Good point. Perhaps we'll see phones hew to apps, and tablets cleave to the Web.
Rebecca Davis

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shared by Rebecca Davis on 22 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Rebecca Davis on 22 Oct 09
     
    project out of Carnegie Mellon to improve English literacy in India through games played on mobile phones
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