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Useful report.

Persson produced this in 48 hours for a game design competition.

Just walk up to it and press X -- it opens the window, which lists everything you can make and which/how much resources are needed to make the item. If you have gathered enough, it will list those you are able to make at the top of the list. It does not seem like you can pick up a workbench like you can in Minecraft, but maybe I'm missing something.

I guess I need to gather more resources. ...or get back to work! Click to focus indeed.

HASTAC has started a forum (a blog post with lots o' comments) to discuss video game studies.

Short little interactive fiction and/or game thing imagining one possible scenario for a military drone pilot.

Fascinating. Found myself playing it through several times. Has Bioware-style dialog gone casual?

...and "serious"? ...and "persuasive"? Lots to like with this. I'll definitely be using it as a complex example in a games course in the Fall.

Connect * Create * Inspire The Ivanhoe Game is about making connections, bridging disciplines, highlighting subjectivity, and engaging students with an alternative pedagogical approach. This WP Theme allows teachers to convert WordPress, already often used in the classroom, into an exciting environment where students can manipulate and play with a cultural object.

ELI updates its useful report.

PAXsims is pleased to feature a number of blog posts from David Romano (Missouri State University) on teaching International Relations through popular games, culture and simulations. Today he introduces the topic. Stay tuned for parts two, three, four, and five in the near future. * * * Introduction Politics as "the struggle for power" surrounds us.

Nice, just sent the general paxsims site to Mike Fratanuano last week.

A simulation game dating back to the 1960s. Looks like the inspiration for SimCity.

"It's easy to promise something in a manifesto. After all, by the time we've elected that party, it's five long years before we can get rid of it. And the vast majority of the promises are broken within the first few months - or the first five minutes of coalition negotiation..."

Love it. I wonder what kind of legwork it would take to "port" this over to US politics....

"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."

Using Google in the classroom, a UK story

Must resist Monty Python and the Holy Grail joke...

Shalom Staub spotted this - may be of interest to some of the group

Ed and I both had the opportunity to listen in to some of the sessions. We agreed that the most interesting and useful information for our community was presented by the developer of A Force More Powerful. A newly designed, open-source, game on conflict resolution will be released in November 2009. The open-source design will allow people to add real or imaginary conflict scenarios as game modules.

Game as prosthetic - stick your finger in to manipulate the virtual finger. See also discussion at http://schulzeandwebb.com/blog/2009/07/30/preparing-us-for-ar-the-value-of-illustrating-of-future-technologies/