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Symon browser game - 4 views

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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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shared by Bryan Alexander on 04 Aug 11 - No Cached

Bryan Alexander on 04 Aug 11

Looks great!

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BBC News - Gamer's death blamed on DVT - 2 views

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Reacting to the Past - 4 views

Agreed. That last, Bryan, can be an excellent way to draw non-"gamer" folks into game principles and design, too. This looks cool; passing it along to my historian colleague.

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started by edremy on 27 Jul 11 2 follow-ups, last by Brett Boessen on 28 Jul 11

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Cat and the Coup, game Iran before coup - 1 views

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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

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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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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 4 views

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Christminster, an academic interactive fiction - 5 views

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Erik Hanson on 22 Jun 11

I can't get the page to load. :(

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Bryan Alexander on 22 Jun 11

Just worked for me. Try a different browser? Or want me to email you a file?

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Erik Hanson on 22 Jun 11

Working now. Thanks, though!

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Delwiche, "Massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) in the new media classroom" (2006) - 1 views

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Gamification has issues, but they aren't the ones everyone focuses on - O'Reilly Radar - 1 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 15 Jun 11 - No Cached

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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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.</div>

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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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Operation MENIS: a soldier, a rhapsode, and a tragedian walk into the agora | Play The ... - 4 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 13 Jun 11 - No Cached

Brynania, peace-making sim from McGill - 3 views

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Lessons Learned in Playful Game Design - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 3 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 08 Jun 11 - No Cached

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.
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many of the students appreciated the greater sense of collaboration
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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.
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a class-based Alternate Reality Game
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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.
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Rebecca Davis on 08 Jun 11

report on gamifying a class

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The Imagination Age: GAMEFUL Challenge - 0 views

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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

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shared by Ed Webb on 06 Jun 11 - Cached

Ed Webb on 06 Jun 11

New home of Inform 7 interactive fiction platform

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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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