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Symon browser game - 4 views

www.kongregate.com/...symon
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  • 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
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Ethical Inquiry through Video Game Play and Design: A Symposium - 2 views

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  • Bryan Alexander on 04 Aug 11
     
    Looks great!
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Cat and the Coup, game Iran before coup - 1 views

coup.peterbrinson.com Iran MiddleEast DocumentaryGame
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  • Todd Bryant on 22 Jul 11
     
    Apologies if I added this already.
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Transition Town game - 2 views

transitionculture.org/...ansition-ingredients-card-game game
shared by Bryan Alexander on 13 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 13 Jul 11
     
    Interesting use of analog game to build social planning.
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On encouraging replay to learn more - 3 views

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shared by Bryan Alexander on 30 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 30 Jun 11
     
    Very interesting discussion. It's a military context, easily generalized.
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Christminster, an academic interactive fiction - 5 views

www.wurb.com/43 interactivefiction IF game
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  • Erik Hanson on 22 Jun 11
     
    I can't get the page to load. :(
  • Bryan Alexander on 22 Jun 11
     
    Just worked for me. Try a different browser? Or want me to email you a file?
  • Erik Hanson on 22 Jun 11
     
    Working now. Thanks, though!
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Gamification has issues, but they aren't the ones everyone focuses on - O'Reilly Radar - 1 views

radar.oreilly.com/...ation-ownership-addiction.html games gamification gaming opinion analysis
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  • Ed Webb on 15 Jun 11
     
    Via James Schirmer on Buzz. As I commented there:  This is quite sensible. Since I do want to dismantle capitalism, I don't agree with that bit. More subtly, I am concerned about the entrenchment of simplistic binary thinking in western, particularly US, culture, so "Game designers often like to see an epic battle between good and evil - even where there isn't one - but that's part of the charm" - for me that's a significant drawback. To the extent that a game includes an argument about how the world is or how the world should be, then reinforcing oversimplification (rather than the simplification necessary in any model of the/a world, be it a book, movie, academic article or game) is problematic. I like my myths/theories/stories multifaceted.
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Bombcast - Giant Bomb's Gaming Podcast - 2 views

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shared by Victoria Pullen on 14 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Victoria Pullen on 14 Jun 11
     
    E3 Day One of the Bombcast is especially interesting. The first half is a conversation with game developers, including Jonathan Blow (creator of Braid), and some industry folks from Microsoft. It was a fascinating peek at the industry. The second half is the normal Giant Bomb crew and is quite good as well. Highly recommend giving this one a listen.
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Lessons Learned in Playful Game Design - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 3 views

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  • 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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Lessons Learned in Playful Game Design - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

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  • As the semester got rolling, I realized that I’d made a new course preparation into a potentially life-consuming task.
  • Rebecca Davis on 08 Jun 11
     
    report on gamifying a class
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The Imagination Age: GAMEFUL Challenge - 0 views

www.theimaginationage.net/...gameful-challenge.html ritajking DIP gaming education pedagogy science
shared by Ed Webb on 07 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 07 Jun 11
     
    How very cool. I'll have to spend more time on 'ful.
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Home : Inform - 1 views

inform7.com writing interactive inform programming tools simulation games
shared by Ed Webb on 06 Jun 11 - Cached
  • Ed Webb on 06 Jun 11
     
    New home of Inform 7 interactive fiction platform
  • Bryan Alexander on 06 Jun 11
     
    Very different presentation. Thanks, Ed.
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Playmancer - 0 views

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shared by Bryan Alexander on 06 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 06 Jun 11
     
    Interesting mix of motion capture with role-playing. I'd like to see the mental health ones.
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Game modding in class - non-digital - 0 views

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shared by Bryan Alexander on 28 May 11 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 28 May 11
     
    Nice example of game modification, using cards.
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