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Ed Webb

BBC News - Minecraft game adds Ordnance Survey GB terrain data - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-24177844

minecraft map UK Britain

shared by Ed Webb on 24 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 25 Sep 13
     
    "I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordnance Survey Maps..."
Ed Webb

Rats in a cage: how games will teach us to love the police state | The Verge - 3 views

www.theverge.com/...ge-gaming-and-the-police-state

games gaming dystopias

shared by Ed Webb on 04 Jul 13 - Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 20 Jul 13
     
    I wonder what an overall survey of all current offerings from the gaming industry would reveal. Index each game along a continuum from Big Brother to V for Vendetta.
  • Ed Webb on 20 Jul 13
     
    If I get tenure, I might just write that article.
  • Bryan Alexander on 20 Jul 13
     
    Yeah! Would be fun for a class project, too.
Ed Webb

56 Million Americans Are Playing Social Games [STATS] - 1 views

mashable.com/...social-gaming-study

gaming social demographics survey

shared by Ed Webb on 24 Aug 10 - Cached
  • A new study from market research firm NPD Group shows that one out of every five Americans over the age of six has played an online social game at least once
  • Social games can help create a new revenue stream, one that solely relies on end users opening their wallets to third-party applications. Virtual goods and currencies are a huge part of the social gaming market, and they turn a casual user experience into big business for the startups, developers and platforms that offer them.
  • 10% of respondents had spent money playing social games and 11% said they planned to do so in the future
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • the social gaming crowd tends to be older and female; around 53% of players are women
Bryan Alexander

Best casual games 2009 - 1 views

jayisgames.com/...best_of_2009_results.php

games casualgames

shared by Bryan Alexander on 01 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 01 Feb 10
     
    Nice survey of the best in this underappreciated field.
Bryan Alexander

Teachers Surveyed on Using Digital Games in Class - 0 views

www.gamesandlearning.org/...achers-on-using-games-in-class

gaming education K-12

shared by Bryan Alexander on 26 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 26 Jun 14
     
    Very useful data on K-12: "We have an early look at some of the interesting data coming out of a larger report on teacher attitudes around the use of games in the classroom. The numbers hint at wider use of games in the classroom and indicate teachers see the real benefit of games in helping low-performing students."
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